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aknechtel
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November 2, 2011
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Rewind audio attached to an image

  • November 2, 2011
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I am building a slide where there are 3 buttons a learner can click on. There are 3 images each with audio attached to them

Clicking any of the buttons executes an advance action that shows a specific image and plays attached audio. It also hides the others so they can click on any button at any time so only one image shows/one audio plays at any given time.

My problem is with audio not rewinding e.g.:

  • if you click on Button1 image shows and audio plays - works fine
  • then if you click on Button2 - image1/audio1 goes away and image2/audio2 starts - works fine.
  • butif you were to click Button2 before audio on Image1 is finished then when you go back to Button1 the audio starts where it left off. Is there anyway I can have audio rewind so no matter when you click each button audio always starts from the begining?
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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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November 2, 2011

You may be running up against and issue where the buttons exceed their allowed number of Success criteria.  This seems to vary depending on the interactive object and your version of Captivate.Basically, some objects can only be clicked once on the same slide.  After you've exceeded their allowed number of Success actions, they stop working until you leave and re-enter the slide.

There is another way to achieve what you want.  The Event Handler widget allows you to turn any screen object into a clickable object, and it has a preference setting to Reset Success/Fail Criteria After Action.  If you also set the preference to Disable Continue, it allows you to click the same object and repeat its assigned action any number of times.

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aknechtelAuthor
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November 3, 2011

Thanks for the info Rod but I am not sure that that is the issue. The images happily disappear and reappear as expected it is the audio portion that does not react the way I would like it to. I can see the logic that is 'conitnue audio from where it was stopped' makes sense in some circumstances but I would like it to start at the beginning any time that object is re-selected.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 3, 2011

You should not attach the audio to the object that you are hiding and showing.  The trick is to attach the audio to the Success caption of the buttons.

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