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Hello everyone, first post here and I am a newbie Captivate developer working on my first project. I have an issue that I need some help with.
Utilizing the timer widget to countdown and force the amount of time the user needs to spend on each slide:
I have to implement this on almost 400 “slides” over 8 modules that are already mostly done. I need to backtrack and implement and my deadline is next week. Looking for a solution to handle the back/forth/timer issue and the easier to implement. It looks like any sort of Master slide setup is out. Should I be doing a frame count check and making sure they can't go ahead until they spend the duration in the timer widget, but I am not sure I can interact wiht the widget in that way to update it's duration. Seems like all this would be possible with JS. Any help is appreciated.
Mike
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What determines the time on the timer from 5 - 60 seconds? Is it the length of the slide?
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No, David, time has to be entered in the Properties dialog box of the Timer interaction. I would not use that timer, but the timing system variables and a shared action. I presume that you would use JS/
Problem with the interaction is that it could work fine for longer times, but for seconds it is not at all correct: it takes about 1sec before it starts.