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webjester
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February 17, 2009
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captivate 4 slide issue

  • February 17, 2009
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I am using captivate 4, I have 16 slides with text entry boxes and 2 buttons on each slide. The buttons are "skip" and "next" When the user answers the question in the text entry box and and hits "next" all is well it goes to the next slide. When they do not enter anything in the entry box and click "next" I run a advanced action and see if the box is empty and if it is I show a text caption that says to use the skip button instead of continue if they hit skip at this point all is well it goes to the next slide, If they hit "next" again the slide should do nothing just stay there, but for some reason if they hit "next" again it goes to the next slide i. Any idea as to why it does not just stay on the same slide ?
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Anonymous
February 18, 2009
Following up on what Rick is saying. You have a timeline set at the top of the slide edit (turn it on if you can't see it). The other objects can be tweaked a bit in the timeline. Set them all with Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-E to force them to time out to the END. The slide time is not important with buttons since they stop the slide. I think Rick is onto something here because the other events on the screen should be controlled by the button.

I use Go To Slide -- Slide number is selected. I almost never use the Go to next slide option.

I have also seen where fad-in and fad-out will mess with timing. Try to turn off fade in and fade out for the offending objects by clicking in their properties and then tweaking the option for fade in and out to read as No fade in or out.

Might need a sample project mockup to find something that works for you here.

Hope this helps.

Joe C.
KerryWilson
KerryWilson
Inspiring
February 18, 2009
I've noticed, if you press a button that pauses the slide, and press that button again... the slide continues.

So perhaps your slide is set to continue to next slide if it has gone past the button pause in the timeline??

If this makes no sense or is wrong... wait for Captiv8r to reply.

:o)
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
February 18, 2009
Hi Kerry

Button Objects pause the slides they are on by their very nature. The default action normally assigned to Buttons is to "Continue playing project".

So here's how it works. Slide is playing and Button pauses it waiting for the user to click. Assuming no changes to the Button action, a click on the Button normally resumes play and eventually the playhead traverses to the next slide.

As for webjester's post, I"m having trouble making sense of it. I'm not sure if s/he is saying the next slide is being skipped or not.

Cheers... Rick
KerryWilson
KerryWilson
Inspiring
February 19, 2009
quote:
Originally posted by: Captiv8r
Hi Kerry

Button Objects pause the slides they are on by their very nature. The default action normally assigned to Buttons is to "Continue playing project".

So here's how it works. Slide is playing and Button pauses it waiting for the user to click. Assuming no changes to the Button action, a click on the Button normally resumes play and eventually the playhead traverses to the next slide.

As for webjester's post, I"m having trouble making sense of it. I'm not sure if s/he is saying the next slide is being skipped or not.

Cheers... Rick


I just realised my example involved an error. In the case where I have a button set to open another file. If it can't find the file, it pauses the slide and gives me the error to say it can't find it. I ok the error message (twice usually) and my slide sits there paused. I push the button again and it finishes the slide without trying to open the URL again.

I thought maybe that a button will only do its attached action once (and if the action doesn't take you off the slide or change the position on the timeline), if you press the same button a second time it will just unpause and continue???

webjester is trying to say... if the text field is empty, and you press next, you get a message telling you to press skip instead. If you then press next again, it shouldn't do anything. (cos you should be pressing skip).

However, next is making the slide go to the next slide.

uh... I'm going back in my box now.

K

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