How do you prevent auto slide progression?

[joshd80]

Hi All,

I'm fairly new to Captivate and am looking to use it to develop a learner-paced e-learning module consisting of a number of slides. However, I am finding that when using Captivate's playback bar, the slides automatically progress, where in fact what I want is the project to stop at each slide, allowing the learner to press 'back' or 'forward' when they have finished reading the slide.

I am sure I am missing something very obvious here, surely! If not, is there a way round it?

Regards

Josh

[RodWard]

Glad to hear it.  Sometimes the final piece of the puzzle is so simple it doesn't occur to you until someone points it out.

[Guest]

Hello

I am really struggling with this issue too.

I have 5 click boxes on my slide that a user clicks on to display \ hide info which they can read at their will (saves using 5 different slides).

However I just can't stop it progressing - only way round is to make slide twenty minutes long or something like that.

Even hiding a little click box doesn't work.

I could start doing the advanced actions but beginning to think its easier to make the slide a long one !

grateful for any advice, ta

[Lilybiri]

Could you post a screenshot of the timeline?

Perhaps my blog post about micro-navigation can help:

Micro-navigation in Captivate

Lilybiri

[Guest]

will try get a screenshot up

basically its the last hidden click box (the only one to have pause project set on it) thats failing to work

[Lilybiri]

Oh! Are you correct when you say 'hidden' click box? Every interactive object that is hidden is automatically disabled, will not be functional.

But tell me what you mean by 'hidden'?

Lilybiri

[Guest]

sorry when I say hidden I mean its a small click box put out of the way so no one will click on it.

It comes in after 28 seconds (slide is 30 seconds) but just won't pause the slide and any click anywhere on the screen moves to the next slide !!!

[Lilybiri]

Screenshots please!

[Guest]

hello - managed to get screenshot - have stripped it down a bit to only have two text captions

basically the top click box coming in at 13 seconds is the one placed in top left hand corner where no one will click (hopefully) ! That has properties set to 'pause until clicked'

The two click boxes below display \ hide different text in other areas depending on where user clicks - I do not have the pause property ticked on this.

The bottom click box is over the continue button on the slide - the only way I want users to be able to progress ! This is set to pause

The slide just keeps moving till it gets to end at 18 seconds - then any click anywhere on screen moves it to next slide !

Its as if the click box that I bring in tucked away in corner of screen does not function at all ?!? As said only way I can get it to work is to make the slide 5 minutes long.

Thanks

[Lilybiri]

Both click boxes in this example have their pausing point at the same moment, so if you click one of the CB's, the playhead will move to the inactive part for both of them.

Try to stagger the click boxes, make the first one shorter (because you cannot change the pausing point) so that its pausing point is before the pause in the topmost CB

Lilybiri

[Guest]

Hi

Thanhks but given that the final version will have five click areas to show and hide certain text with quote a bit to read there's no telling how long they will need to read the items - and in what order. So making the click point before the final one can be done - but only by making the slide really long again like 5 minutes.

Am beginning to think this is the only option here - is there any drawbacks by making the slide long ? Will it affect the size of the overall project ??

[Lilybiri]

It is bad practice to increase slide duration to allow the user to read: just pause the slide with an interactive object. Never understood why so many user try to provide time for reading where a simple pausing point can do the trick. I'm sure I could reduce all your slides to the default duration of 3 secs or even less, if you give me clear instructions. Is it not possible to let the trainee decide when to go to the Next slide by a simple button? A text caption to be read is something static, no need to extend its duration to time needed to read it if you have something that pauses the slide.

You have 5 click boxes, each one is showing a Text Caption (and hiding the other text captions?), I suppose they can be clicked in any order and multiple times? And you want the user to get on only when all captions have been viewed, either automatically or by a button/click box. I just helped someone else out with a similar situation.

Why bad practice: you file size will not only increase, but at a rate of 30frames per second, you could bump into the limit of frames that can be handled by Flash, do not remember that number but know there is a limit. And editing that kind of slides is really hard. The only reason I ever have slides with a longer duration is when I have to synchronize objects with an audio file of that length, or when slide video is embedded. But in your screenshot neither is showing up.

Lilybiri

[spinacoli]

Does placing those back and forward buttons automatically pause the current slide? That seems to be how my project is behaving without doing anything extra to pause the slides.

[Lilybiri]

Please, start a new thread. This one is 7 years old?  So much has changed in Captivate, and some people (like Ashwin) are no longer around. What do you want to know, which version are you using? Are you talking about custom Next/Back buttons on slides or master slides? I will be happy to answer....in another thread.

[spinacoli]

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