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petrk27901450
Inspiring
July 2, 2017
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Hide playbar by default but then show later

  • July 2, 2017
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I am working on a session where the playbar should be hidden by default and then appear on a later slide.

At the moment I have an "On Enter" action set for the first slide that hides the playbar, and then on the later slide I have an "On Enter" slide action set to show the playbar. The issue with this is that because the playbar is not hidden by default, when the session is loading the playbar is visible until the action hides it. This is a fairly short period, but it looks a little strange the way it pops in and then out on the first slide.

Is there a setting to have the playbar disabled/hidden by default and then be able to show it on a certain slide later? Alternatively, is there an action trigger that happens before "On Enter"? For example such as "On Load" so that the action is triggered before the slide content loads, preventing the pop.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

You can give the dummy slide a transition (fade in), but only for SWF output.

2 replies

Inspiring
July 3, 2017

Go to Project -> Skin Editor -> Uncheck Show Playback Control. See if that works for you.

Lilybiri
Legend
July 3, 2017

Sorry, but then it will not be possible to turn on playbar later on in the

course, not a good advice because it will not work in this situation!

Lilybiri
Legend
July 3, 2017

There is no OnLoad event to trigger an advanced action. Maybe this is possible with JS?

The problem is that the advanced action is not triggered immediately if it is the On Enter event of the first slide. Sometimes I succeed this workaround: insert a very short dummy slide before the first slide with the action.

petrk27901450
Inspiring
July 3, 2017

I was afraid that would be the case. I have tried the dummy slide but unfortunately since the action is not triggered fast enough, the dummy slide ends up popping in and out similar to how the playbar is doing.

Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
Legend
July 4, 2017

You can give the dummy slide a transition (fade in), but only for SWF output.