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1. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Lilybiri Jan 20, 2010 11:33 AM (in response to NathanStryker)Open Properties of the slide, set the action on End to 'No Action'.
Perhaps?
Lilybiri
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2. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
NathanStryker Jan 20, 2010 11:34 AM (in response to Lilybiri)Tried that, it still rolls to the next slide ....
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3. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Lilybiri Jan 20, 2010 11:41 AM (in response to NathanStryker)Insert a small click box, in a place where the user will not click: it will pause the slide.
Lilybiri
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4. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
NathanStryker Jan 20, 2010 11:49 AM (in response to Lilybiri)Yep that seems to work, seems like a pretty dirty fix though.... surprised there isn't an "Auto/User" advance option
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5. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Captiv8r Jan 20, 2010 12:50 PM (in response to NathanStryker)Hi Nathan
That's simply the way it works. Perhaps it will help to think of the Captivate timeline as a flowing stream. You insert objects such as Text Captions. They flow along until they are removed. The playhead always advances unless something pauses it. In this case, Click Boxes or Buttons will pause it.
Fortunately, it's dead simple to place a Click Box on each slide if you want the slide to just pause once it has played. Insert the Click Box on one slide, confiigure and place as needed, then copy it. Select all the remaining slides and paste in one operation!
Cheers... Rick
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6. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
James Martin Jan 27, 2010 3:43 AM (in response to NathanStryker)I just use buttons for this. If there's a slide where I need to pause, I include a "continue" button on the slide.
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7. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
guidrys Mar 26, 2010 10:44 AM (in response to NathanStryker)I have been able to pause a slide by inserting a continue button. I have a slide that has multiple slidelets. Unfortunately; upon removing the cursor from the hover are that brings up the slidelet, the slide un-pauses. I am unable to insert click boxes on the slidelet as well.
I look forward to your advice.
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8. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
cp_beginner May 10, 2010 12:45 PM (in response to NathanStryker)I have this same problem.
I can insert a click box to prevent it from moving on to the next slide, however if I do this then the item is not "checked" as completed in the table of contents.
Anyone know if this is fixed in Captivate 5?
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9. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
dparkeruk Jun 21, 2010 8:30 AM (in response to Captiv8r)Strangely, my slides progress regardless of whether I add a button or a checkbox.
Are there some specific options you need to specify for those items to get them to pause the slide?
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10. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Captiv8r Jun 21, 2010 9:03 AM (in response to dparkeruk)Hi there
No, the default nature of a Button or Click Box object is to stop the slide dead in its tracks until it has been clicked by the user. You didn't by chance clear the Visiblity check box did you?
Sometimes folks just want the slide to pause and they place the object. They then clear that Visibility check box in an effort to "hide" the object becuse they don't want it to be visible to the end user. The thing is, that also removes the pause function.
If it's a Click Box, it will be invisibe anyway. So if this is what you have done, you need to re-enable the Visibility option.
Cheers... Rick
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11. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
dparkeruk Jun 22, 2010 2:41 AM (in response to Captiv8r)Thanks Rick,
Got it working eventually. Not 100% sure what I was doing wrong
beforehand but I have managed to create what I would imagine is a
ridiculously complex/busy slide so I probably just got a bit mixed up.
Cheers,
David
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12. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
davidf0214 Jun 22, 2010 5:08 AM (in response to NathanStryker)I had a similar problem working with Captivate 4 trial, then discovered
that I had wrong settings for Button Options in the template I created.
Perhaps these are default values that take into account fade in, but a
check in the Pause after box allowed manual advance with a continue
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13. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
James Martin Jun 22, 2010 5:08 AM (in response to NathanStryker)If your project is (or can be set to) ActionScript 3, you can use my PauseMeNow (AS3) widget to work around this:
http://wheatblog.com/software/
Wheat
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14. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
bearclau Sep 20, 2010 10:47 AM (in response to Captiv8r)I'm also having problems trying to get Captivate to do what I want it to do.
On my slide I have a chart that the user only sees partically displayed. After 50 seconds of audio, he needs to click on each of the 5 items on the left to see and hear a corresponding item on the right.
The slide needs to stay paused until all 5 items have been selected and the learner clicks on the Next button that's part of the navigation interface.
I put in a transparant click box to pause the slide, but it interferes with the other click boxes I'm using to get the hidden items to display.
I don't want to create a blatant "click here to continue" button on the screen because that would be a change in the naviation rules the learner has been accustomed to.
Any ideas?
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15. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
CHunsley2010 Jan 24, 2011 2:06 PM (in response to NathanStryker)How do I get rid of the little highlight in the click box indicating whether the user should right click or left click? I am just using the click box to pause the slide forcing the user to click one of the two images on the screen. Thanks
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16. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Captiv8r Jan 24, 2011 3:09 PM (in response to CHunsley2010)Hi there
Is this what you are referring to?
Assuming I'm correct, this is something you only see when you are editing the project. The Click Box is invisible to the learner.
Cheers... Rick
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17. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
Leo N Nov 30, 2011 7:35 PM (in response to NathanStryker)I have a problem with the 'insert click box' method of stopping slides from advancing. I have video that needs to continue looping while the learner decides what to do. By inserting a click box, the only way to stop the slide advancing is ticking the 'Pause project until user clicks' box. Unfortunately that also stops the video from looping. Is there a way around this?
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18. Re: Manual Slide Advance Captivate 4.0
nstanz Feb 9, 2012 11:35 AM (in response to NathanStryker)This can be done in Adobe 5 and possibly 4... I have to check.
Here is how you get it to pause at the end of a slide w/o using a button or any other kind of dirty workaround.
Create an Advanced Action...
Use "Assign" and set the variable "rdcmndPause" to 1
Name and save your Advanced Action.
In the Actions for each slide you need to use this on set the "On Exit" to "Execute Advanced Actions" and choose your newly saved action.
Tip: to apply this to all of your slides simply hightligh them all in the file strip then apply the above step.
Enjoy
- Nick





