Turning on and off an assett and pausing a project

[neilbal]

Hi all,

In a Captivate 4 elearning project, I have a slide with some questions for reflection. I have a feedback button on this slide that has multiple events showing a Text Caption with some feedback and a small image button in the top right of this text box (it's a close 'x' button). This button has two events attached - hide the button and hide the text caption. I want the user to be able to open and close the feedback text caption as often as they want.

However, I cannot find anyway for the project to pause once the feedback has been hidden. There is a pause once the feedback button becomes inactive, the project then starts up again on click and pauses again once the close button on the feedback becomes inactive. Close this though and I can't find a way of pausing the movie so the user loses control of the project.

How can I get my project to stop once until the user clicks the play button but allow the text box to be shown and hidden with buttons?

Thanks in advance,

Neil

[RodWard]

Can I ask a question here:

Why have you opted for requiring the user to click something to get this feedback if all you are going to do is display a text caption?  Why not just use rollover captions instead?

You can trigger pauses in Captivate movies by adding buttons, clickboxes, and interactive widgets.  But as soon as you start clicking things on a slide, you progressively move through the objects that are adding pauses until you reach a point where there's nothing left to prevent the slide from continuing to play.

Using mouseover as the mechanism to display information gives you a lot more freedom because it doesn't trigger the movie to continue playing.

So is this approach an option for you?

[neilbal]

Thanks RodWard - the Rollover caption may just be a workaround. I wanted to use buttons for consistency and look-and-feel reasons. I was wondering whether executing some JavaScript onclick to pause the movie would work and add this as a multiple action - but my JS skills are very basic and I couldn't work out how to do this.

Thanks for the really useful suggestion,

Neil

[RodWard]

Actually, thinking about your requirement a little more...I would suggest you look at purchasing this widget from Whyves:

http://blog.flash-factor.com/widgets/interactive-label-widget/

I think you may find that it offers what you're after.

You need to set the Success Action to No Action.  You are effectively using the widget itself as your captions.

[RodWard]

As of just a few moments ago you have yet another option to achieve this effect using standard Captivate captions and a new version of our Event Handler interactive widget.  We've just released an updated version of the widget which adds a lot of extra functionality, including Right Mouse Click as an event option.

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01

The new features that will particularly interest you are some additional widget preference settings to permanently pause a slide and allow repeated clicks on interactive objects to trigger any number of sequential Success or Failure actions.

I think this means you can now achieve your original objective by having multiple Event Handler widgets on the same slide with each one set to display Success captions when clicked.  If you set the widget preferences for Disable Continue and Reset Success/Failure criteria after Action, your users will be able to click away as often as they like to see the resulting feedback again and again without leaving the slide.

You'll have to set up at least one interactive object on the slide (e.g. a button) with the action set to Continue, or Jump to another slide so that your users can progress to other areas of the movie.

Does this help you at all?  If so, please mark this issue as Solved.