Advanced Actions Advancing the Slide

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April 10, 2015
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Hello,

I'm pretty familiar with advanced actions, but I have a problem I can't seem to figure out!

I have advanced actions applied to a number of buttons on each slide of my course - one opens a glossary, another opens a resources menu, another opens a help menu, etc. The way I have it set up, I've added the cpCmndPause variable when you open each menu, and the cpCmndResume variable to the button which closes each respective menu. Additionally, on many of my slides, I have buttons that the user needs to click to advanced to the subsequent slides. These buttons are set to pause at the end of the slide. Lastly, in the Resources menu, I have a number of buttons that are set to open PDFs in a new window with the Continue playing the project checkbox unchecked.

What I've found, is that when the slide reaches the end and pauses, if I open any of these menus and click any button within, the project immediately jumps forward to the next slide. I can understand that perhaps the cpCmndResume command is overriding the button on the slide pausing the project, but is there any way to get around that? I really don't want the users to miss content on the slide, which is why I've set the variables to pause in the first place. Also, I cannot understand why opening the PDF would immediately un-pause the project.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Dan

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mauriceford@usa.net

Participating Frequently

instead of using this:

cpCmndResume=1;

Try using this:

cpCmndGotoFrameAndResume=0;

Lilybiri

Legend

Very old thread, and there is a BIG difference between those two variables... cpCmndResume is not used very much anymore, you can easily use the command Continue instead of toggling that system variable.

cpCmndGotoFrameAndResume is a micro-navigation command, and only used when you want to navigate to a certain frame, it needs a frame number as parameter.

Lilybiri

Legend

Not enough information: where are the buttons to open/close a menu? Are they perhaps stacked on each other in the same place at the same time? Too much unknown factors, not very easy to understand just from a textual description. Which version do you use? Must be an older one, because at this moment it is no longer necessary to use the system variables cpCmndPause/cpCmndResume to pause/continue a slide.

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danjackson9Author

Known Participant

Here are a couple screenshots that might help--I'm using Captivate 8. Is there a better way to pause slide content when opening up menus like this? These menus are supposed to be independent of the slide content. Each of the buttons on the top of the screen (any of the white text/icons) are stacked on top of each other in the timeline, but they all appear at the beginning of the slide and are set to play for the rest of the slide length.

I've circled the button I clicked to open this particular menu (additional resources). Each of the 9 gray buttons open up a separate PDF, but for some reason when the slide is paused and I click them, they continue playing the project (even though that checkbox is unchecked). The Back button is supposed to close the menu and resume the slide.

Does this help a little bit?

Lilybiri

Legend

Sorry, I really don't understand what you want. Is this another slide or a group of shapes and buttons that you show? Has the icon with the open book (shape button?) a pausing point or not? If you use an advanced (or better shared) action to open the group, the playhead will not be released. And the buttons: do they have a pausing point, and if yes, where is it compared to the pausing of the back button?

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