Need to delay animation

[justinm53961168]

This might be easy but can't figure it out...

PROBLEM: bar-admission-report gif (seen below) is already running when I click button 'Bar Admission Directory Preview'...and I want the bar-admission-report gif to START when someone clicks the 'Bar Admissoin Directory Preview' button.

The gif seems to be mid-way through when I click the button...I want the gif to start ONLY WHEN someone clicks 'Bar Admission Directory Preview' button.

I was playing around with Conditional Action statement but couldn't get it sorted 😕

any help would be appreciated.

[RodWard]

I think you will find that the GIF is going to start its animation from the moment it gets added to the timeline. NOT when you decide to SHOW it.

So if it has been added to the timeline at half a second in, that's when its animation will start, even though it's set NOT Visible in Output at that point and is therefore invisible to the user.

You need to come up with a different strategy for making this animation work the way you want.  I suggest you will need to be jumping to different slides so that the animation starts as soon as the slide opens.

[justinm53961168]

oh I didn't know that. I've aggressively taught myself Captivate 9 over the past 2 weeks so many things I haven't experienced (but I've rolled my sleeves up and dug in).

Given my situation, what would you do? I assume you would put the animation on it's own slide and do it that way? If you have another solution, please advise, I need to complete this and I've literally spent 20 hours or so banging my head against the wall with this project (but enjoying Captivate along the way).

[RodWard]

I'm not really sure what your animation does, but yes I would probably be putting it on a different slide.

[Lilybiri]

Is this a button on top of a learning interaction (Process circle)?  It could be possible to use micro navigation, but don't know if it is appropriate in this situation.

[justinm53961168]

yes Lilybiri it is on top of a Learning Interaction. I wanted to start the animation when the button was clicked but it seems easiest to put the animation on another slide?

[TLCMediaDesign]

Since it's an animated gif, why don't you edit out all but 1 frame and save that to use as a cover. Put it on top of the anim gif and then hide the "cover" when you click the button.

[justinm53961168]

so the animation is one frame, used for a cover image, but how do I 'Show' or start the elongated animation when someone clicks on the cover image?

[TLCMediaDesign]

When the user clicks the 'Bar Admissoin Directory Preview' button, you hide the cover to reveal the animated gif below it. It should already be running.

Or release the playhead to encounter the GIF.

[justinm53961168]

I think that's what I was doing and the problem was/is the gif is in mid-animation because it started with the Timeline and not with the button click.

Maybe I'm missing something.