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ACrosby
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December 29, 2019
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Need To Create a "Play/Pause" button in Captivate 2019

  • December 29, 2019
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Hello!
I have the latest version of Captivate.
I need to create a single button that plays and pauses the current slide.

The information I am finding online is for older versions, and I can't get those tutorials to work properly.

Here is what I need to happen: The Play/Pause button itself should start off in the "Pause" state, because the slide itself will begin playing automatically. When the user clicks this pause button, the image of the button changes to a "play" button and pauses the video. When the user clicks the "play" button, the image of the button changes to the "pause" icon once again and the video resumes playing, this play/pause cycle can happen an infinite number of times.

I know how to create button states, and I've done some work creating advanced actions. 

Can someone steer me in the right direction? Thank you for any help!

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Lilybiri
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December 29, 2019

Please search in my blog for Custom Play/pause button,. There is even a link to an interactive video.

ACrosby
ACrosbyAuthor
Known Participant
December 29, 2019

Lilybiri,
Thank you for responding. 

I'm in your about page ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7937458), but the user interface does not provide a way to search within your blog posts.
(I can only search among ALL forum posts)
Can you send me a link?
Lilybiri
Legend
December 30, 2019

I am in Belgium; sent you a quick answer after midnight but didn't see your answer. Since you had been telling that you couldn't find a tutorial, bit astonished that you cannot find my blog site which pops normally up whenever you search. Link is also in my profile.

Here is the direct link to the most recent version (CP2019) of the custom Play/pause tutorial:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/custom-play-slash-pause-button-version-cp2019

 

Beware: you need to understand fully what can be paused and not, hope you do master the Timeline fully:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/pausing-captivates-timeline