Conflicting behavior with Continue Playing Project settings in Captivate sim

[CletusQMaggot]

Hi!

I have dug myself into a hole and I can't think of a way out.

I have a simulation that runs fine all the way through each slide -- captions appear, you click or type or whatever, it moves to the next slide, etc.

But I also have a button to toggle some supporting information for that slide. In this case, it toggles a bank check and they use the information on that check to fill out the fields on the interface. The toggle basically rotates the check image between two states where one is the check and the other is empty.

The problem is clicking the toggle with "Continue Playing Project" checked will blow right through the end of the slide even if they aren't ready. And unchecked, it'll stop the slide potentially before it's done displaying everything, and they'd have to know to click the Play button to keep moving.

Neither of these is really satisfactory, but I can't think of another option. 

Does anyone have any ideas? Or am I boned?

Thanks all,

Christian

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Take the second option, but push the pausing point of the toggle button towards the end of the slide, so that everything can appear in the active part of that toggle button. You will have to offer a way to proceed, when they are ready with the 'check'. You can use a hyperlink on some text on that check to hide it again and add the command Continue, which means that you'll need a standard advanced action.

[RodWard]

Another possible solution:

Rather than trying to do everything on a single slide I would be using a second slide for the second part of the task where they use the information from the bank check to fill out other fields.  When they click the button to do the bank check, just have the button Go to Next Slide and don't have any slide transition. The ony visible difference between the slides is that the bank check image changes, but then they can proceed with the rest of the task and use the data to fill out other forms.

Sometimes you "dig yourself into a hole" by trying to do too much on a single slide for no other reason than that the original app is doing everything on the same screen and you THINK you have to replicate that.  It's not true.  You're only replicating the USER EXPERIENCE with the simulation.  You don't need to recreate the app in Captivate.

[CletusQMaggot]

Thanks, all!

After thinking through it, you guys pointed me to a solution. I don't really need them to see the check while other stuff is happening on the screen. So I'm going to keep the icon from appearing until the slide is ready for some user action -- either filling out a field or clicking an element or a Continue button or whatever. At that point, they can toggle back and forth until their fingers erode while the slide waits patiently for them to do what they're supposed to do, then it moves on and the process repeats.

Thanks for the feedback!