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rita6130
rita6130
Inspiring
May 13, 2013
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Click Boxes in version 6 stopped working

  • May 13, 2013
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I use click boxes to allow the learner to control their navigation.  I create a slide with click boxes and when the end user clicks it "jumps' them to that section of the learning content.  It is often a course divided into several lessons.   The end user does not have to complete all lessons but only the ones they desire to view.  This worked beautifully in version 4.  I upgraded to version 6 and have completed a few courses and it appeared to work.  But in the one I am working on now it will allow me to click on the other click boxes and it makes the clicking noise but it either does nothing or takes me to the first "jump" from the first click box that I added to the screen.  I often copy these boxes from other content so I deleted them all and recreated them to make sure they were not hanging onto something.  I made sure they were visible, that the movie pauses for the click, and that they all display for the entire length of the slide.  Can anyone make a suggestion or help me out on this?  The whole course is based on this branched navigation so I can't just delete them.  I am on version 6.1.0.319.  One thing that is different between 4 and 6 is that I have now added quizzing and they have to answer all the questions.  If they are required to answer all questions will that impact the click boxes on the other slides?

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    Correct answer RodWard

    One thing that stood out to me in your description is that you said you made sure the click boxes "all display for the entire length of the slide".

    Are you aware that the pause point for a click box is right at the end of its object as shown on the timeline? So the click box pause point is not shown the same way as for buttons or text entry boxes where you have a vertical line in the object to show the position of the pause point.  If your click boxes go all all the way to the end of the slide timeline, then their pause points will be right at the end of the slide, not somewhere in the middle, which is usually where you WANT them to be.  If all click boxes are added in the same way, and their pause points are all at the same frame of the slide, then clicking any one of them will unpause the slide and execute whatever action you assigned to that click box.

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 14, 2013

    One thing that stood out to me in your description is that you said you made sure the click boxes "all display for the entire length of the slide".

    Are you aware that the pause point for a click box is right at the end of its object as shown on the timeline? So the click box pause point is not shown the same way as for buttons or text entry boxes where you have a vertical line in the object to show the position of the pause point.  If your click boxes go all all the way to the end of the slide timeline, then their pause points will be right at the end of the slide, not somewhere in the middle, which is usually where you WANT them to be.  If all click boxes are added in the same way, and their pause points are all at the same frame of the slide, then clicking any one of them will unpause the slide and execute whatever action you assigned to that click box.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    May 14, 2013

    Have another question, besides the comments of Rod. Are the click boxes perhaps overlapping physically on the stage? I'm asking this because of "... takes me to th first jump"

    Another problem maybe is the location of the quiz in your file (since the option you choose 'have to answer all the question')?

    Lilybiri

    rita6130
    rita6130Author
    Inspiring
    May 14, 2013

    There are two quiz questions at the end of every lesson before I take them back to the menu slide.  Then the results slide is at the end of all the content so I never attempt to take them past that slide on any of the "jumps".  I tried to upload the slide for you but it keeps giving me an error.

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