Adobe Community: How can I make slides NOT advance automatically?

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1. Hari-Krishna-R,

Jun 18, 2012 9:13 PM in reply to bluegroove380

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Hi,

You can insert a click box covering the entire stage at the end of the timeline with the action goto next slide, so the slides will pause for the user to click,

you need not extend it to 300 seconds also, 3 seconds will do since it will pause until the user clicks..

regards,

Hari

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2. AdityaKalania,

Jun 19, 2012 3:49 AM in reply to bluegroove380

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Hi there,

Wonder ful suggestions Hari .

Creating a click box and covering the entire stage will solve the problem for you, but this click box will overlap all the interactive objects on your slide.

I would suggest you to have a next button displayed at the end of the slide, say 2 seconds before the end, which will pause the playback and user will then click on that next button to jump to the next slide.

Similarly you can have a back button on your slide, and add action to jump to previous slide. So this will add functionality to your project.

If you need any help with this, Please let me know.

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3. NitinKumar.,

Jun 19, 2012 4:08 AM in reply to bluegroove380

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Hi,

Nice Suggestion Aditya:-)

In continuation to Aditya's suggestion. If this task has to be done for multiple slides in a project.

These slides will be linked to some Master Slide.

Go to that master Slide.
Insert a Smartshape of your choice. Add text say Next.
Check Use as Button in PI. (Default Action is Goto Next Slide only)
In PI-> Options Accordion Check Pause Project until User Clicks.

And you are done, all the slides linked to that master slide will pause for click:-)

Let me know in case you have any queries.

Regards,

Nitin

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4. Lilybiri,

Jun 19, 2012 12:46 PM in reply to NitinKumar.

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Sorry to pop in, but before talking about smart shapes, shouldn't we know first which version has been used here? Captivate 6 is only just released, smart shapes may sound like 'Chinese' to this user.

Making slides that long, will result in unnecessary big filesizes as well.

I use the click box covering up the slide a lot, but only if there are no other interactive objects as Aditya points out, or with a timeline that starts only when all the other interactive object timelines are finished.

The next button is fine, but could be confusing if this user also has a playbar in the project. Another question I would ask. I suppose this is a pure linear project, so that the default action for a button, Go to Next slide will be OK.

Lilybiri

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5. bluegroove380,

Jun 25, 2012 2:20 PM in reply to Lilybiri

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Thanks everyone I will try these tips!. I have version 5.5, so no smart shapes I guess. Sorry for the late response, I've been out sick.

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6. bluegroove380,

Jun 25, 2012 3:03 PM in reply to bluegroove380

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I tried all the above and ended up with something similar, but a bit different. Putting an image button on each slide will pause the slide and require a click to go on. This is exactly what I need. I guess this means I will need to build a full navigation menu to copy and paste onto all the slides. The master slide will not allow me to insert an image button.

BUT of course I won't want to use the automatic nav bar that captivate makes the bottom. How do I get rid of it? I can't find it in the settings...??

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7. bluegroove380,

Jun 25, 2012 3:25 PM in reply to bluegroove380

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Something new: If I put a very small click box on the slide in an out of the way place, it can be used to pause the slide. Then the user clicks the nav button that is automatically created by Captivate. Now I don't have to get rid of that nav and all I need to do is paste the little click box on every slide. Strangely enough this only works when the click box is set to "visible" however it is NOT visible in the preview. That works for me.

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8. Captiv8r,

Jun 25, 2012 7:51 PM in reply to bluegroove380

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Hi bluegroove

Sounds like you are misunderstanding the visible option. By default, Click Boxes are always invisible. The visibility option governs whether they are present at run time. For example, perhaps you have a Click Box that opens a PDF containing a certificate of completion. But it should be present and clickable only under a specific condition. In that case you would clear the visibility and use Advanced Actions to control whether it's available at runtime.