Condition "is not a lightbox"
Dec 30, 2022
By
Joel O.
Hello,
I don't want to maintain a separate slide as a lightbox so I use my menu slide directly. Now, I'd like to know if there's a condition in the triggers such as "is not a lightbox", in order for instance to not play some audio each time the lightbox is opened.
For now, I circumvent this using a jump in the timeline to a marker that is after the events but it is a bit tricky when the sound is conditionnally started, I have to trigger those with another object entrance and jump after this one and ... Yuck it feels a bit hacky ^^
So what do you think folks ?
5 Replies
Hi Joel,
You can make use of variables in Storyline 360 to control whether audio in slides will play or not. For your requirement, you may be able to use True/False variables as an alternative to an "is not a lightbox" trigger, which is not an available trigger event in Storyline 360.
There is however, a 'This slide is lightboxed' condition that you can play around with which might produce the same result.
If you're willing to share a sample project file here, I’m sure one of our talented community members will have suggestions for you.
You could explore if either of the Window conditions would work as part of your trigger.
Thank you @Michael : That's exactly the condition I was referring to : I'd to have a condition "is not lightboxed" :)
@Joe : I guess I'll have to create additional variables to track if the audio has been read so it's not triggered when the slide is used as a lightbox.
Thanks I guess it's the best course of action, though it might be great to have the feature "is not lightboxed" :)
Then you might want to try the other option. Isn't the "This slide is inside the player frame" the equivalent of a slide not being lightboxed?
Wooooah
That's totally it !!! I didn't understand what that option meant and so I didn't try it (LOL I guess it's time to have some rest) but indeed it works like a charm !!!
Thank you so much !!!