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Norsketech
Inspiring
September 22, 2008
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Stopping slides from automatically going to the next slide

  • September 22, 2008
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This seems like it would be a common request, but I can't find a solution anywere.
Captivate automatically moves on to the next slide when the previous slide ends. I would like it to stop and wait for the user to hit the "Next" button on the Playback Control.
I do not want to have to add another "Next" button to every slide. That would be redundant and time consuming. I just want to use the next buton in the Playback Controls. How do I get each slide to stop and pause?

Is this possible?
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Correct answer Norsketech
I may have answered my own question, BUT I would like to know if any of the experts here have a better way of doing this...

Solution: Add a new text button to Slide 1. Blank out the text on this button. Mark the option to make the button "transparent". Then copy the button to the clipboard. Select all the other slides in the project. Hit paste.

Now all slides have a "hidden" object that pauses them. They can click on the Next button in the Playback controls to move forward at the end of each slide.

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NorsketechAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 22, 2008
I may have answered my own question, BUT I would like to know if any of the experts here have a better way of doing this...

Solution: Add a new text button to Slide 1. Blank out the text on this button. Mark the option to make the button "transparent". Then copy the button to the clipboard. Select all the other slides in the project. Hit paste.

Now all slides have a "hidden" object that pauses them. They can click on the Next button in the Playback controls to move forward at the end of each slide.
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
September 22, 2008
Hi Keith

Yes, I have a suggestion. Instead of the Button object, I would do the same thing using Click Box objects. Basically that's what you did by configuring the Button as transparent with no text. A Click Box object is an invisible Button. But more flexible.

Cheers... Rick
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