Pausing Triggered Object Audio using Captivate Player Controls

[rrambarran]

Hello,

I am wondering if there an elegant way to pause audio that is triggered by Play Audio action attached to a button?

On my timeline I have Introductory audio that explains why learners should click one of the 2 buttons on the stage.

Button 1 plays Audio 1 and changes the state of a graphic to state 1

Button 2 plays Audio 2 and changes the state of a graphic to state 2

I am able to pause the introductory audio using the Captivate Player Controls

I would like to pause the audio that is triggered by the play audio action (Audio 1 or 2) attached to the buttons using the Captivate Player Controls.

Is this possible?

Regards Richard Rambarran

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[Lilybiri]

Maybe you should have a look at this movie:

Audio and Pausing Timeline

Captivate's Timeline

The way audio clips can be paused depends on the type of audio and the used pausing type. Have bad news for you: there is NO way to pause a clip that is started with the command Play Audio. You can only stop it with Stop Triggered audio

[GabrielB837]

Lilybiri, is there still no way within Captivate, without using JS, to pause a clip that is started with the command Play Audio?

[Lilybiri]

Pause, no. You can only stop it with 'Stop Triggered Audio', but that is not the same as pausing.

[GabrielB837]

Thanks for your answer. This is a little frustrating. I want to be able to use the pause/play button in the playbar controls to pause/play audio attached to a button.

[TLCMediaDesign]

The only way to do this would be to use JavaScript.

You would need to find the name of the pause and play buttons, add event listeners to them both. Then find the audio and pause/play it.

This would more than likely need to be done in external JavaScript, but may work in a JS window.

I'll see if I can find a script I wrote some time ago that can do that.

[Lilybiri]

David, the title by the OP is confusing because he is NOT talking about Object audio (which can be pased in an advanced action by the Pause command) but about a clip triggered by the Play Audio command. Can that be paused and resumed with Javascript?

[TLCMediaDesign]

It can. Everything can be accessed and controlled with JavaScript.

If there is audio on the slide, no matter what is playing it or how it was triggered, there should be an <audio> tag.

There may be a few audio tags, so you would need to find the correct one, and then it can be paused or played.

It's kind of the same way as buttons on a Master Slide. They can be accessed by searching through the DOM for the element that matches an accessibility tag since you have no idea what id Captivate will assign the button.

[Lilybiri]

@TLCMediaDesign, thanks for that info. I can manage all audio except the Play Audio clips without JS.

[GabrielB837]

Is there JavaScript that can be applied to a slide action that tells the generic play/pause button in the playbar to also pause audio that is added to a button? If so, can you share that JavaScript?