How to interrupt Delay once it starts in Advanced Actions

[kmmelissa]

This Advanced Action:

Assign v_hint with 0

If v_hint = 0
  then 
     Delay 5 seconds
     Show img_01

This AA is applied when entering a slide and works as intended. However, if the v_hint value changes to 1 before 5 seconds has elapsed, img_01 still appears anyway.  This makes sense since once the AA is triggered, the Delay action will begin immediately and can't be stopped, as far as I can tell, even if that v_hint value changes.

I solved my problem in an enirely different way but would still be interested in any ideas out there about ways to control the Delay action.

Thanks!

Thanks!

[Lilybiri]

Indeed the Delay command will not bother about pausing points neither. For that reason it needs to be used with much care. I found that a combination with a non-infinite While loop works well. For your use case, I would need more information about the precise goal. How can the variable be changed before the delay time elapses?

[kmmelissa]

Oh, I forgot about the while loop, even though I used it for this sort of thing before. The v_hint variable is incremented by 1 when one of two click boxes is clicked. One on those click boxes fills the whole frame. 

I think using the while loop might help with this, right?

[Stagprime]

How about this JavaScript approach? I suppose this could be crafted with advanced actions as well - I just function in the JavaScript world.

You could place something like this on a button to execute the 5 second countdown.

At the end of 5 seconds, the variable is checked. If 0 - show it. Otherwise - nothing.

That way - whatever other mechanism you have for changing the value of your variable won't matter.

This could easily grow to accommodate more requirements.

setTimeout(function() {
if (v_hint == 0) {
cp.show("myImage");
}
}, 5000);

[kmmelissa]

Thanks for the javascript idea. I'll play with that.