Lightbox slide closes to a different slide

Hi Lynne, I don't think you can do this.

I thought you might be able to do it be creating a true/false variable that you could set and then use to redirect to another page after viewing the lightbox slide but unless I had the logic set up incorrectly I could not get it to work.

Hi Lynne,

what would be the purpose of an other slide appearing.

My questions is, that Although its sais lightbox slide, it can also be looked at as a scene. For this you ned to enable the naviagtion buttons when you create the open lightbox trigger

Geert

Yes, you could do what Geert is suggesting - just keep in mind that if you enable the navigation buttons on lightbox you can navigate to other slides but they will also appear in the lightbox.

Lynne,

Here's a discussion from back in July on the topic. It can be done, but it's not the most elegant.

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/16176/92733.aspx#92733

Mike

Totally doable and actually pretty elegant. The secret is to trigger your lightbox to close FIRST then call your slide change. See attached.

Good call Steve.

I think the July conversation revolved around wanting to use the little red x close button....which necessitated the wonky approach.  But Lynne, if you have the real estate to use Steve's approach, it's certainly much more elegant and would look smoother.  The only catch is that if the learner clicks on the little red X box, they'll wind back up on the original slide.

Mike

Hi Steve,

Indeed elegant, I didn't know that when a lightbox closed, the triggers after the close where still fired!

Lynne will have to foresee a kind of navigation on here lightbox, as closing the lightbox with the red cross in to top right corner will navigate her back to the slide from which the lightbox was opened.

Thanks for the info

Geert

Thanks all...Steve, it is more elegant your way. I will have to figure out what to do about the X. Unfortunaley, I cannot seem to put a button over it. Suggestions anyone?

Create your own "pseudo" lightbox" slide by putting it on a layer of your original slide.  Have a simple "close" button on the layer that just moves to the slide you want.

You can create your own lightboxes on the master slide as well. A new layer automatically jumps to the top of the slide stack. Calling these is a little bit tricky. You have to use a variable to "transmit the message" between the base and master slides with a listener trigger (When variable changes) to "catch the message".

Here is a simple example of a custom lightbox. It is more in line with what Gerry is suggesting.

Hi Lunn,

I found this old link in the forums.

Might be what you were looking for

Geert