Playbar not hiding consistently on first slide
milhousebarks Jun 11, 2014 12:29 PMHi,
Another question/issue - I seem to have a lot of them all of the sudden.
I'm building a project with a series of video slides where I want to use the playbar as a way of letting uses turn on captions, start and pause, etc. on video slides. But I don't want the playbar or on the first slide which is just a simple welcome slide or on any of the other non-video slides. I thought this was an easy thing to do by setting "Hide Playbar" as the action on entering the slide. I thought that was working fine, but now I've noticed that when I test the project, either by using the play in Web browser option or actually publishing the site, the playbar shows up at least half the time. If I just refresh the browser it goes away... sometimes. Sometimes if it doesn't show and if I hit refresh it shows up... I put the published project on a server and played it from another computer (a PC, since I'm on a Mac) and I get the same consistently inconsistent behavior. The hide playbar works very consistently in other slides either as a simple action or as part of an advanced or shared action.
I don't remember if this happened on earlier versions of the project, but it may well have been since I wasn't really looking for it. I don't have anything particularly advanced happening in that first slide and the only thing I could think of that was "different" than an average project was I was using the CPGuru TOC widget, but I took that out of the first slide just to check and that didn't seem to change the issue. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this so I can make it stop?
I did figure out a cludge that seems to work, but really don't want to use it. Basically I duplicate the slide, remove the pause from any items (in this case a single click box) and then reduce the duration of all the elements and the slide itself to just .1 second - so I'm basically starting the project with a .1second duplicate version of the first slide that immediately rolls into the "real" first slide. That way it seems that if it fails to close on initial load when it effectively reloads that slide it hides the playbar so the user only sees it for a tiny flash.
Any help in debugging this so i can avoid the cludge is greatly appreciated.
System:
Mac Pro running Mavericks
Captivate 7.0.1.237
Flash Player 10 selected in publishing preferences


