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Normally when you convert a shape to a button, a default pause is inserted at 1,5secs. Check in the Timing Properites or on the TImeline of those buttons.
You could have kept the Entrance effects, but make sure that the pausing point is after the end of the Effect.
Careful; you have now only one attempt for those buttons (I would have kept Infinite), and the Last attempt is set to Continue. Set the attempts back to Infinite.
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Sorry, don't understand your answer: a shape can be filled with any image, what is to be liked about them since you create the image. Advantage is that you can add a label on it, while image buttons need to have the label in the image. It is your choice, but be aware that fluid boxes don't support click boxes over images.
As for inserting a timeline, better come directly to the Jive forums where you can insert the image much easier using this button:
This is your thread in that forum:
Here is the timeline from the original project. If this isn't going to work with this configuration I will use something else. However, the limitations on changing the look of other tools is very disappointing.
I did try inserting a shape. There is no way to give it the same style as the text box. I may have to make peace with it just looking crappy, or disjointed, but I don't like the style options available to me at all.
I will not discuss anymore about shape buttons, since you seem not to understand what I mean by being able to fill a shape with any image, a gradient, a texture, a solid fill. Text styling is exactly the same as for captions including margins. And they can be used on master slides, or timed for the rest of the project which is not possible with any other interactive object, including click boxes.
I see three click boxes that are pausing the slide at its last frame. If those click boxes trigger simple actions, did you uncheck the option Continue Playing the project?
There is an effect appied to the text caption but not to the click box: which type of effect?
You are correct, I apparently don't know how to change the look of the button. I can easily see where to fill the shape with an image, gradient, texture, etc. However, my captions use the default halo blue style. It just happens to be perfect for the background in my content, and I haven't located the ability to duplicate that on a button. Do I need to create a screen print of a caption using halo blue and import that image onto the button? Regardless, I could not get the buttons to work either.
I'm obviously missing something, but I don't know what - this just doesn't seem like it should be very complicated to accomplish.
There is an on entrance effect tied to each caption - See screen print below.
There is no "continue playing the project" option at all. See screen print below.
I found the image in the gallery. It puts strange guidelines on the image, so I have to figure out how to get rid of those. Thank you for that - Looking in the gallery for things like that is something I haven't gotten used to yet.
It makes sense that the action is still active and preventing the click. I might try just removing the actions to see if the navigation works.
That said, If I am to use buttons (which does make more sense) then this should be stupidly simple. Right now, I just need to walk away from this and work on something else for a while. When I am ready to take a fresh look at it, I'm going to remove everything on that slide and start from scratch, building it just from the button/navigation up. I'm obviously just missing something in the logic.
I appreciate your input.
I have no idea why the continue language is not there. Below is a screen print of the version of captivate I am using.
Hi - I finally got back to this. I created buttons that look exactly the way I want - thanks for the tip above. My buttons do not have any kind of effect applied at all right now. My issue now is that the slide will not wait for the user to click the button - the audio plays, and the slide transitions without ever given the user a chance to click a button. How do I make a button pause until something is clicked? I have inserted below the properties on the slide and on each button.
Any help on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
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