Disable next button until media (swf) completes?

Feb 28, 2013

By J P

I'm trying to disable the storyline next button until the media completes.

I created a sim1 variable that is false.
I created a trigger that said to jump to the next side when the user clicks the next button if the sim1 is equal to true.
I tried to create a trigger that adjusted the variable of sim1 to true when the media completes but the media I have on the timeline doesn't show up as an option in the object dropdown.

Any ideas if this can be done or what I'm doing wrong?

6 Replies

John Papiernik

11 years ago02/28/13 at 10:05 am (UTC)

I have built work arounds for issues like this. If you have any text or objects onthe same slides, create a new state for one of those objects. Have the new state be exactly the sam as the current state. Have that state change at the end of the timeline. Then place a condition on the next button that the object you created the state for has to be in the newly created state before the next button will work.

Hope that makes sense.

J P
Author

11 years ago02/28/13 at 10:22 am (UTC)

Hi John,

I don't have anything on screen except for my sim. And I have users clicking in the swf to interact with it so I'm not sure what I would put on screen or where I would put it . I'm having issues because the storyline timeline is separate from the captivate/swf duration. The swf is self-directed so the duration varies.

steve dixon

almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 7:29 am (UTC)

Hi I am having the same problem as JP. I have an interactive movie (swf) that isn't recognised as media theObject dropdown only has Unassigned, no other options. As it is interactive it doesn't have a set duration so I cannot put something else on the timeline to use When Timeline ends.

This has to be a bug doesn't it?