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tothebeat
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February 29, 2012
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Button that shows something but doesn't advance the slide

  • February 29, 2012
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I have a slide with three buttons.  If a user clicks two of the buttons I want a text box to appear giving them some advice.  If a user clicks the third button, I want a text box to appear along with a "continue" button to advance the slide.

I can get the last button to work properly, but when users click either of the first two buttons the text box appears, but then the slide advances.  I want to force them to click the third button at some point.

Essentially this is like a quiz where I want them to click the third button.  I don't care if they ever click the first two.

Thanks for the help.

John

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 29, 2012

    Hello,

    How are the buttons arranged on the Timeline and when do they pause? Normally when a button is clicked, the action triggered by that button will be executed AND the playhead will be released. That is what is happening for the moment. To prevent the playhead to get on (slide advances) you have to rewind it.  Unless you are sure about the sequence of the user clicks, than you could also achieve this by staggering the buttons on the timeline. In case you have all buttons with their pause at the same moment (also the last Continue button), try this Advanced action for the first button:

    I did hide the second text caption here as well, in case the user had first clicked the second button. For that second button you'll have a similar action, just reverse TCOne and TCTwo (the two text captions).

    For the third button the action should be:

    If the Continue button (BtContinue) has its pausing point later than the three other buttons, you do not need the last Assign statement here.

    Lilybiri

    VikramGaur
    Adobe Employee
    VikramGaur
    Adobe Employee
    February 29, 2012

    Hello,

    You need to create 3 Advanced Actions for your 3 buttons and your will call these Advanced Action on the "On Sucess" of every button

    In your 1st Advanced actions you will define a Standard Action : Show your Text Box Hint (Text Caption)

    In your 2nd Advanced actions you will define a Standard Action : Show your Text Box Hint (Text Caption)

    In your 3rd Advanced actions you will choose Standard Action and define 2 action, Show your Text Box Hint (Text Caption) and show your 4th button (Continue)

    Note : Make sure all the 3 Hint Text Box (Text Caption) are invisible (Visible option on Properties Inspector is unchecked)

    Hope this helps

    Thanks,

    Vikram

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