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jeffrey.resnik
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August 25, 2014
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CP8 - Pausing a slide.

  • August 25, 2014
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I'm still learning Captivate but, to pause a slide to wait for interaction before advancing, you have to include 'Pause' in an Advanced Action when the slide starts or in another interaction. Doing this means that timing or effects, or the ability to 'Show' an object delayed by timing or effects, have no outcome because the play head is stopped. So, how would you show an object after a certain period of time or with an effect when you still need to pause a slide? How to accomplish both a pause and delay or effect when an object appears? Shouldn't this kind of pause (necessary when you want to wait for an interaction before proceeding to the next slide) be the default or at least handled by setting a property of the slide master or some way that doesn't require a manual intervention?

Thanks,

Jeff

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    August 25, 2014

    There are several possibilities to pause a slide. The easiest one is to use an interactive object: button, shape button, click box or Text Entry Box. They all can have a pausing point (visible in the Timing Properties panel). The timeline is the core of Captivate, where you can time objects to appear later than the start of the slide. Your question is very basic and very vague at the same time. You are talking about 'an effect'... are you pointing at the Effects that can be applied to an object? Those effects have their proper timeline.

    Try to avoid the simple action 'Pause' at the Exit event of a slide, it will stop the movie at the first frame of the next slide which is not what you want. Only for very specific situations do you need to pause with an advanced/shared action. I don't know why you think it has to be done so often?

    This is an old blog post about the timeline, although the screenshots will not be totally the same, most is still valid: Tiny Timeline Tidbits - Captivate blog

    You talk about master slides: if you want to create a custom navigation with buttons, you have to know that only shape buttons can be used on master slides. If the shape button is set to pause, it will always pause at the end of each slide, whatever its duration. Because on master slides you cannot time anything. Why I like Shape Buttons - Captivate 6! - Captivate blog  explains some use cases for shape buttons.

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    jeffrey.resnikAuthor
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    August 25, 2014

    Thanks,

    That handled it. I wanted to pause the slide and didn't look at the

    interactive object timing as the means to do that. I was looking for a way

    to do that with the slide timing properties v. individual object timing

    properties. It wasn't intuitive to me, as a learner, to see the 'Pause

    After' check-box as relating to the overall slide timing. Since it is

    grouped with 'Display For' and 'Appear After' which are both timing

    properties of the object, I assumed (without giving it much thought,)

    'Pause After' also related to just the particular object.

    Jeff

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 26, 2014

    Pausing is always related to the play head, just like for a DVD-player or a VCR? Whatever you use to pause: on the device or by a remote, or by your smartphone doesn't matter, does it?

    Timing is very clear, and also intuitive IMO, when you just look at the Timeline: it is a representation of the start time and the duration of each object on the stage. That is why I find it so sad, that CP8 is hiding that Timeline when you open it, because of its importance in the UI. But of course that is my personal opinion.

    Lilybiri

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