Image button click resulting in moving to next slide issue

[Gareth1927]

We have an image used as a button that hides itself. All our slides have a 'Next' button that needs to be pressed to continue to the next slide. However, when a user clicks the image button this somehow triggers moving onto the next slide.  We've already looked at the timeline, actions for both the Next button and the image buttons, but we can't see anything that may be causing this. Any idea what's going on?

[Lilybiri]

You do not tell which version you are using, nor which type of action you

trigger by that image button? If you are using a version before 9 and it is

a simple action from the Actions tab, you have to replace it by a a

standard advanced action.

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[Gareth1927]

We've tried it on Captivate 8 and on Captivate 9. The action we are trying to trigger is for the image to hide itself on clicking it. The image does hide itself but it also moves onto the next slide.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Maybe you didn't understand my question about 'simple action' vs. standard action.? This post explains the difference, why the simple action releases the playhead.

Why choose Standard over Simple action? - Captivate blog

In Captivate 9, you have the possibility to use a simple action, but you have to uncheck the highlighted feature in this screenshot to prevent the playhead from being released:

You are showing a shape button in the screenshot (but not the Actions tab, too bad. I don't understand the link with your first post, where you say that you use an image as a button, but this shape button has a gradient fill, not an image as fill? How to do that is explained in: Turn an Image into a Button - Captivate blog

Be careful: it happens that a shape button is not disabled when it is hidden (that was the case for interactive objects until some version, not sure which one). To be sure it is really disabled, my practice is to always create a standard (shared) action that will first disable the button, then hide it:

   Disable SB_one

   Hide SB_one

Same to make it again clickable, only showing will not always do the trick, you'll need:

   Show SB_one

   Enable SB_one

[Gareth1927]

Hi, that's done it. Thanks.