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Elyse N
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June 29, 2022
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Play/Pause Slide with Triggered Audios on layers

  • June 29, 2022
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Hi everyone,

 

I want to play/pause a slide by the use of custom icons and triggers and this was possible, but then this can't work with slides that have layers on them. The project I am working on didn't have the play and pause buttons so they weren't developed with this in mind. On the slides with layers (3 or more), the Play/Pause and Mute/Unmute buttons are not working and I think JS would be the ones to use. Can anyone suggest solutions to this?

Buttons used: 

When you click the pause button it pauses the slide and shows the play button and vice versa. When you click the volume button it mutes the audio and shows the muted icon and vice versa.

 

I appreciate your support.

 

Best Regards,

Elyse                 

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    June 29, 2022

    Terminology is always a problem, in this case the terms 'layers' and 'triggers'.

    The Timeline panel of Captivate doubles as layer panel IMO because it allows you to change the stacking order, and can also be used to manipulate individual object timelines. However, I completely agree with Rod that it is not the same as in SL. My suspicion is more raised by 'triggers' because that is a typical SL term, which I seldom use in Captivate as a noun, only as a verb.

    If you are indeed on Captivate, allow me to ask some questions about your custom buttons:

    • Where are those buttons? Are they on the main master slide (not possible for Fluid Boxes projects) or other master slides? Or do you have them on the first slide timed for the rest of the project? Or (hope not) do you have individual buttons on each slide?
    • The mute/unmute button can be very simple as explained in one of my blog posts:
      Multiple Toggle buttons with ONE Shared Action - eLearning (adobe.com)
    • Play/Pause button is more complicated. Here is a link to an interactive video explaining a possible workflow:
      Custom Play/Pause button
      But you need to be very careful if interactive objects are pausing the timeline. I have of course no idea how the full course has been set up.
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    Elyse NAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 29, 2022

    Sorry for my wrong terminologies, I am not an expert in Adobe captivate 🙂

    • The buttons are on the first slide timed for the rest of the project and they work on only slides thahaveas one image and one audio.

    I have attached two screenshots that you asked for, and how the pauseon and pauseoff actions are triggered.

     

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    Elyse NAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 29, 2022

    Additional images

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 29, 2022

    Are you sure you are working on a Captivate project and not an Articulate Storyline project?

     

    Captivate doesn't really have layers like Storyline, where the layers can have their own timeline.

     

    In a Captivate project each slide has one main timeline that can be paused or played via the default playbar, or by using custom buttons and Advanced Actions.  But the only other elements that you can put on a Captivate slide that might have their own timelines are Event Videos and HTML5 Animations (e.g. OAM files from Adobe Animate).

     

    Can you please explain more about your project?

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    Elyse NAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 29, 2022

    Hi RodWard,

     

    Yes, it is a captivate project, but I am not the original developer. The course is interactive, it has multiple screenshots on one slide and uses buttons to move from one screenshot to another. So each image (considered to be a layer) has triggered audio in advanced actions of the slide and you might find that there are two to three audios in the action script.

     

    I am not sure if you get well what I meant.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    June 29, 2022

    Your answer and mine just crossed somewhere and landed at the same moment.

    From your last answer it seems that the problem is to understand the workflow of the previous developer. I already asked some question in my answer, please try to answer them.

    Is it possible to insert some screenshots from the setup of a slide (including Timeline panel) and of the used advanced (or shared) actions? Actionscript is no longer possible, since output will be exclusively HTML5. I suspect the commands 'Play Audio' will be in the advanced a ctions, and audio started by that command cannot be stopped except by the command 'Stop Triggered Audio' or by using 'Play Audio' with another targeted clip.

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