TIming with Text Entry Boxes and Buttons on the same slide

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September 30, 2009
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I am about to pull what's left of my hair out.

I have buttons at the bottom of all my screens (next, back, and home). I added Text Entry Boxes to a slide. After a few seconds the slide becomes "inactive" because of the settings on the buttons. I took the time setting off the buttons, but the Text Entry Box REQUIRES a "pause after" setting.

Do I have to make this 99 seconds, or is there some other way for the slide to remain active while the student figures out what they are supposed to enter in text entry box?

Your help (and ideas) is/are greatly appreciated.

Larry

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RoboWizard

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Hi Larry

I think you may be overthinking it. Sure the slide will pause and wait for interaction. But while it's paused the user may still type into the Text Entry Box.

Personally I've never had a need to time a slide longer than perhaps six seconds.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

Rick - I may be overthinking it, but I still can't enter my text in the box after 3 seconds. The timeline below shows (a little blurry) the settings. I have a Click box pausing after 3 seconds. All 3 buttons at the bottom pause after 3 seconds. And the Text Entry Box pauses after 1.2 seconds.