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randyIES
randyIES
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July 11, 2016
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Download file button does not pause audio

  • July 11, 2016
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Hi Everything,

I'm building a project where there is  a button set to "open URL or file".  I have told the file to open in a new tab and have unchecked the "continue playing the project" checkbox.  When the button is clicked, the slide pauses, but the audio for the slide does not pause.  I know people have dealt with this, but I can't seem to find decent instructions on how others have dealt with this.  Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

thakns

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Sorry for a late replay, but wanted first to double-check a possible solution.

I checked the functionality of the 'Continue Playing Project', with F12 and F11 when using a simple action (from dropdown list in Actions tab) 'Open URL or File'.  The number of attempts for the button is set to infinite. I found that:

  • F12 (for SWF output) when clicking the button the first time, the slide audio will stop as expected;  when clicking another time (before the pausing point of the button) the slide audio will not stop, only the slide is paused.
  • F11 (for HTML output): the slide audio always continues playing, even for the first click.

After publishing this seems to be the same, but I didn't upload the HTML version to a webserver (my bad).

To provide a solution which works for both SWF and HTML output: replace the simple action by a short advanced action (you could turn it into a shared action with the URL or file as parameter):

This will work like you expect: slide audio is always paused.

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Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
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July 12, 2016

Sorry for a late replay, but wanted first to double-check a possible solution.

I checked the functionality of the 'Continue Playing Project', with F12 and F11 when using a simple action (from dropdown list in Actions tab) 'Open URL or File'.  The number of attempts for the button is set to infinite. I found that:

  • F12 (for SWF output) when clicking the button the first time, the slide audio will stop as expected;  when clicking another time (before the pausing point of the button) the slide audio will not stop, only the slide is paused.
  • F11 (for HTML output): the slide audio always continues playing, even for the first click.

After publishing this seems to be the same, but I didn't upload the HTML version to a webserver (my bad).

To provide a solution which works for both SWF and HTML output: replace the simple action by a short advanced action (you could turn it into a shared action with the URL or file as parameter):

This will work like you expect: slide audio is always paused.

randyIES
randyIESAuthor
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July 13, 2016

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for the advice.  I was thinking along those lines, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something simple.  I see this being needed multiple times in several projects coming up.  How can I make it a shared action (or something similar) so I can reuse the action and change the url each time?  I don't know how to make the URL a parameter.

Thanks,

Randy

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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July 13, 2016

Sorry, should have double-checked as well. You are correct, it is not possible to have a file or URL as parameter in a shared action.

My bad.

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