How to stop slides from auto advancing, Captivate 8

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August 15, 2016
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Hi.

I have a click box covering most of my screen. If the user clicks anywhere on the screen accept on a particular button, a success caption displays (it is really a failure caption, but I mention that in case there is some built in feature for a success caption). This caption displays for 3 seconds and then disappears - which is good.

But I don't want the slide to advance. I only want the slide to advance when the user clicks a certain button on the screen (which is set to go to next slide).

I see that the slides themselves are timed (at 3.0 secs), which I don't want. But actually the slides do not advance after three seconds, but only after the success caption fades (which is, coincidentally?, 3.0 secs too).

So again, I want:

The slide to never auto advance

The "success" caption to display (if the user clicks anywhere other than a button) and hide after 3 seconds

The slide to advance only when the user clicks a specific button (or click box set) up as "advance to next slide."

Can you help?? Thank you!

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LPeterson1

Inspiring

I've always changed the slide action On Enter to "Pause". That way the user has to click your button (or nav bar if you've set it up) to advance.

Lilybiri

Legend

@LPeterson If that is your approach, it means that only the objects that are visible from the start of the timeline will show up? If you only want to avoid auto advance to the next slide this is not the best approach at all. The original question was also bit different.

@amyn.... What did you mean by 'most of the slide'? Is there an overlap of the button with the click box?

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amyn24911628Author

Inspiring

Thank you everyone.

Lilybiri - yes, duh. I figured that out. I did not realize that the slide itself is a clickable object and so had a click box covering the entire screen, save for the one button atop. I had the feedback caption associated with that large click box that covered the screen. Luckily it did not take too long to remove that and make the (failure!) caption appear when the user clicked anything other than the button (and I associated the feedback caption with the button. So much easier!

So all is working as it should now.

TLCMediaDesign

Inspiring

Change the On success action of the clickbox to "No Action"

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