Stopping an animation at a certain time via code

[RonLin]

I am trying to find out if there is a way to stop an animation (oam, swf, mp4 or wtv) at a certain time on its own timeline not of the slide itself.

For instance I have a progress bar animation with 3 levels (so the animation is a bar going from 0 to 100), so based on a variable I would like the progress bar animation to stop at a certain time while the slide is still playing.

Is this possible?

[Lilybiri]

MP4 is not an animation but a video format. If you insert the video as event video in Captivate you have automatically a control panel with a Pause button. It plays independtly of Captivate.

As I explained in my Timeline articles and movies, animation are, unless using JS, out of control with Captivate tools. If I created an OAM and want the possibility to pause, I would do it in the application in which I created the OAM (in my case either Edge Animate or Animate CC). It has not much sense to talk about SWF anymore, but that would have been the same approach. It is possible to exchange the value of a variable between an OAM and CP.

[RonLin]

OK is there a simple tutorial out there on how to communicate between Captivate and an OAM file? A simple send/receive variable data between OAM and Captivate.

I want to see how easy it is to do...

[Lilybiri]

There used to be a great video course by Jim Leichtliter which had some lessons about that subject, but I'm not aware of a new tutorial at all. Maybe one of the JS experts on this forum can point you to a tutorial.

[Jeremy Shimmerman]

If you're using an MP4, you could host it on Vimeo - then use their API for control. 

https://elearning.adobe.com/2017/12/end-of-video-events-with-vimeo/

I haven't yet used OAM files. You could try creating your own animation using WAAPI and then control it through that. 

https://css-tricks.com/css-animations-vs-web-animations-api/