Pausing slides without using custom buttons

[lar19729]

When using the standard playbar next and previous buttons, the slide automatically continues. When I use the command "on enter, pause" it skips the next slide and then pauses. The same happens when I use the command "on exit, pause". How can I use the standard playbar buttons and have the slide pause right at the end of that slide's timeline? I don't want the slide to jump to the next slide and then pause. I want the slide to pause before it jumps to the next slide and then use the standard playbar next button to continue. Thanks

[Captiv8r]

The only way I'm aware to do that is to use Click Boxes or Buttons or Smart Shapes configured as a button.

Cheers... Rick

[Lilybiri]

Using slide events to Pause a slide is not a good idea. Just an example: the 'On Exit' event happens after the last frame of the slide. That means you have to be that last frame is reached (not the case if you have interactive objects that navigate) and you'll land on the next slide.

The easiest solution is to put a shape button on the master slide(s), that is used by your slides. If you set Alpha for the Fill to 0% and the stroke width to 0, this shape button will be invisible to the user (since you want to use the playbar buttons to advance). Be sure that it is pausing (default in Captivate 8). Shape buttons on master slides have no duration, and the pause will always happen at the end of each slide to which that master slide is applied. Setting up one shape button on the main master slide takes a couple of seconds. Be careful: some daughter master slides do not take over the objects of the main master slide (Introduction in some themes is such a master slide).