Hi I have a slide with 6 icons for learners to click on to hear different audio from each icon. Can I set the trigger so only one can be clicked on at a time? Otherwise, if you move on to a new icon too quickly it plays the recordings over each other and it is a mess.
Select the 6 icons > right click and create a button set. This means only one icon can be selected at any time. Depending on your setup - you made need to add triggers to start/stop the audio.
or
Add each audio file to it's own layer. Set a trigger to show layer a when user clicks icon a. and another trigger to hide layer when audio completes or when user clicks another icon.
If those don't work - its easier to help if you can share your file so we can see your setup.
I like the layers idea. if you set the timeline of the layer to the same length as the audio, you can select the layer to hide itself when the timeline ends. You can also choose to have each layer hide all the others, so you won't need the other triggers.
A button set seems like it might be the perfect answer to my situation. I had layers set up but couldn't get that option to do what I need it to. All 5 audio files need to be on the slide in order for them to be available to trigger when an oval is clicked. How do I get them to plan when and only when the trigger is clicked? If I put them all at the beginning of the timeline they all play at the beginning. If I put the at the end of the timeline, they're not playing when clicked. I'm missing something. Thanks,
So, I turned my 5 ovals into a button set, and I set the triggers to play audio from file (avoiding the where do I put it problem) but that's not preventing audio from overlapping if someone clicks on another oval before the audio from the previous one finishes. :-(
You need to add a trigger to stop media when you click the button. For example, if I click btn 1 then need to stop media 9audio file) for btn 2, btn 3 etc...
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Hi Jenny
A couple of ways to do this
Select the 6 icons > right click and create a button set. This means only one icon can be selected at any time. Depending on your setup - you made need to add triggers to start/stop the audio.
or
Add each audio file to it's own layer. Set a trigger to show layer a when user clicks icon a. and another trigger to hide layer when audio completes or when user clicks another icon.
If those don't work - its easier to help if you can share your file so we can see your setup.
I like the layers idea. if you set the timeline of the layer to the same length as the audio, you can select the layer to hide itself when the timeline ends. You can also choose to have each layer hide all the others, so you won't need the other triggers.
A button set seems like it might be the perfect answer to my situation. I had layers set up but couldn't get that option to do what I need it to. All 5 audio files need to be on the slide in order for them to be available to trigger when an oval is clicked. How do I get them to plan when and only when the trigger is clicked? If I put them all at the beginning of the timeline they all play at the beginning. If I put the at the end of the timeline, they're not playing when clicked. I'm missing something. Thanks,
So, I turned my 5 ovals into a button set, and I set the triggers to play audio from file (avoiding the where do I put it problem) but that's not preventing audio from overlapping if someone clicks on another oval before the audio from the previous one finishes. :-(
You need to add a trigger to stop media when you click the button. For example, if I click btn 1 then need to stop media 9audio file) for btn 2, btn 3 etc...
Yes, I just got that to work. I got the impression from this thread that the button set would do that for me. Thank you for your response.