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Trihan
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July 19, 2011
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Pause slide until value is selected in a combo box?

  • July 19, 2011
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Hi there everyone.

I'm attempting to create a splash page of sorts for a system simulation where the user is asked to enter their name, and choose which location they work in from a combo box (using the combo box widget)

I have the name entry part working, and the combo box appears, but I'm having a few issues with it.

First of all, as soon as a value is chosen from the box is jumps to the next slide. I'd rather have navigation controlled by a button so that the user can make sure they chose the right value before continuing. Is there a way to do this?

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

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    Hello,

    This is the most crazy issue, but think I found the reason: although the widget looks a lot smaller in editing mode, when opening it (preview or published) it drops over the button. When I moved it away, seems to work. Can you confirm?

    Lilybiri

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    July 19, 2011

    Hello and welcome to the forum,

    You will have to add an interactive object: button or Click box. It should pause after the pausing of the Text Entry Box.


    Do you want to check the entry into the combobox widget as well? If yes, you can add an advanced action to the inserted object (Click box or button) to check and act on this check.

    Feel free to ask more questions,

    Lilybiri

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    TrihanAuthor
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    July 19, 2011

    Hi Lilybiri, thanks for the welcome.

    Adding a click box did add the pause like I wanted, but I still have the issue where as soon as a value is chosen from the combo box it jumps straight to the next slide. It also doesn't allow the first value to be chosen because it's already selected in the list I guess, but I suppose I can get around this by adding a "Please select a value from the list below" option at the beginning.

    Any ideas?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    July 19, 2011

    Hello,

    Strange, which version of CP are you using (Widgets appeared in CP4). I just checked in CP5 and CP5.5 and couldn't reproduce your issue at all. I inserted a combobox widget and a button on the same slide, both timed for the duration of the slide and the button pausing at 1.5sec. And all works as wanted: the playhead moves until the pausing of the button is reached (at frame 45 = 1,5secs) than waits, I can choose in the combobox and only when I click the button (set to go to next slide) the playhead moves on. This widget is a static widget, which means that it should behave like an ordinary static object (Text Caption, drawing shape....). The playhead will move for the duration of its timeline and since the pausing is before the end of that timeline the playhead stops, combobox stays visible, you can select and the result is posted in the variable if you defined one.

    Just one tip about dropdown list & combobox widgets: be sure not to put spaces after the separating comma when defining the values in the list.

    Lilybiri

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