Lightboxes are a wonderful concept, I would love to see some visually attractive features, and navigational flexibility added - hope to see this in future releases.
One option--you can add your custom button to the lightbox slide itself that will close it.
You can even have a series of related lightbox slides with their own custom navigation.
...but you still retain the "X", right?
Not sure visually (from a design perspective) that I would want to do this.
It would be great to have lightboxes just as a "subset" of normal slide behaviour, retaining all the normal expected features and functionality, just being smaller and colour washed.
Would be great if they could also have their dimensions set - being able to select a long, thin lightbox would be wonderful if mixed with some zoom functionality...
YMMV, but I don't mind--for now--having the small "X" for closing the window, but some more options would be great, I agree.
Of course the trick of creating your own lightbox slide with a layer is great--or using another slide to do that, if the lightbox will always be just accessible from the same slide. Make a copy of the original slide's background and then paste it on your "quasi-lightbox slide" and then do what you need to do.
Do not disagree, however, having now seen / imagined what is possible, I would like that Lightboxes, (rather than being a "feature" per se) were brought back into the fold, and just became one of the ways that you can display a "normal" slide.
That would significantly expand the options, and allow (for example) for a course to contain many variably dimensioned sections, which could be an extremely powerful product differentiator.
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Hi,
I believe the current answers would be no and no.
Lightboxes are a wonderful concept, I would love to see some visually attractive features, and navigational flexibility added - hope to see this in future releases.
Bruce
Thanks Bruce! I would want to confirm with you regarding whether this issue is not fixed in Storyline Update 1 as well.
Well - it is not "fixed", because it is not a bug or error - it is just the way they are currently designed.
I guess the best thing to do is put in a feature request, and let's see if we can get Lightboxes enhanced a bit...
Bruce
One option--you can add your custom button to the lightbox slide itself that will close it.
You can even have a series of related lightbox slides with their own custom navigation.
...but you still retain the "X", right?
Not sure visually (from a design perspective) that I would want to do this.
It would be great to have lightboxes just as a "subset" of normal slide behaviour, retaining all the normal expected features and functionality, just being smaller and colour washed.
Would be great if they could also have their dimensions set - being able to select a long, thin lightbox would be wonderful if mixed with some zoom functionality...
Bruce
YMMV, but I don't mind--for now--having the small "X" for closing the window, but some more options would be great, I agree.
Of course the trick of creating your own lightbox slide with a layer is great--or using another slide to do that, if the lightbox will always be just accessible from the same slide. Make a copy of the original slide's background and then paste it on your "quasi-lightbox slide" and then do what you need to do.
Do not disagree, however, having now seen / imagined what is possible, I would like that Lightboxes, (rather than being a "feature" per se) were brought back into the fold, and just became one of the ways that you can display a "normal" slide.
That would significantly expand the options, and allow (for example) for a course to contain many variably dimensioned sections, which could be an extremely powerful product differentiator.
Bruce
Thanks Bruce & Gerry for your valid inputs! I will try those options.
Thank you!
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