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CDubber
CDubber
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January 9, 2020
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Managing overlay player interface with branching?

  • January 9, 2020
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Hi all, I've created my own player bar since the out-of-the-box ones are mostly awful. This has all been done on the first screen of the course, and the player buttons are set to display on top of all other slide elements and persist until the end of the course. This appears to work great until I get to a branching slide. The branching is controlled from on-slide buttons. But on those slides I don't want the user to be able to click either the forward or back button on the player bar (depending on the slide they're on) because it will mess up the branching experience. I can't remove the forward or back button on those specific slides as they're persistent across the entire course. And I can't cover them up because they're set to appear in front of all on-slide elements. Is there a way I can accomplish what I need?

 

Thanks.

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Correct answer Octorden

On your branching slides you could try to add an advanced action which hides the original contol buttons. On that particular slide only you could have new buttons which allow the use to move to branching slides. (The new buttons could look the same and occupy the same space as the orignial buttons) Then once this is achieved another advanced action could then show the original buttons.

 

Is this something that could help you?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
January 13, 2020

I didn't answer yet because I am not sure you did design a 'player bar' with the same functionality as the default playbars, or if you have just custom navigation buttons on the slides? For the last use case, I offered on ce a free shared action which allows you to hide/show group of navigation buttons on each slide. If you are interested, here is the blog post:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/shared-or-advanced-use-case-hide-slash-show-custom-navigation

CDubber
CDubberAuthor
Known Participant
January 21, 2020

They are actually just custom navigation buttons on the slides masquerading as a bottom-screen player bar. They appear on the first slide and are set to be persistent across the entire course and to appear above all other on-slide elements.

 

I think your solution is exactly what I'm looking for. I will try it out. Thanks!!!

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
January 22, 2020

Great, glad you found a solution.

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OctordenCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 13, 2020

On your branching slides you could try to add an advanced action which hides the original contol buttons. On that particular slide only you could have new buttons which allow the use to move to branching slides. (The new buttons could look the same and occupy the same space as the orignial buttons) Then once this is achieved another advanced action could then show the original buttons.

 

Is this something that could help you?

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