Multiple Lightboxes - Trigger Question
Jan 13, 2013
By
Bruce Graham
Here's what (I hope) is a simple one...
I have a "menu" slide with 2 x choices - buttons 1 & 2.
Button 2 fires off a lightbox, which has Navigation enabled.
Clicking "Next" moves to the 2nd Lightbox in the sequence.
The question is this...
What is the Trigger order that I need to have on Lightbox #1 to close Lightbox 1 when user presses "Next", and then open Lightbox 2, which will is closed by pressing on the "X" symbol?
I thought it would be as image below, but that always leaves both of them open, see second image, where you can see it has opened #2, but #1 still open. Changing the order makes no difference.
I must be missing something.
Thanks!
Bruce
9 Replies
Couldn't you just jump to slide within the lightbox rather than close one and open another?
Maybe!
If that is the "correct" way to do this, then perhaps.
Let me try it and see...
Thanks
Bruce
OK - that works between multiple lightbox slides, (I did not expect "Lightbox" to be multiples, I thought they were just "single things", that's all I have used them for before.
How, when I get to the end of the sequence of Lightboxes do I go back to "real slide size" for the Menu slide?
Thanks
Bruce
You should be able to set a trigger on the next button to close the lightbox slide if the slide is lithgboxed (this is a condition)
Think of a lightbox as a floating viewport. You can do almost everything within the viewport that you can with a normal slide (because it leverages normal slides)
Thanks Phil - that's it
I have never seen that Condition before, did not realise it was required!
Cheers matey.
Bruce
Goes back to my desire to know everything.
It may be a disease, I am going to attempt home-made ECT, must check my life assurance first
The "if in a lightbox" condition is a really cool feature. You could use it to show or hide objects on a lightboxed slide but make them appear on the regular mode.
If a lightbox series, I've just added a simple button to the last slide in the lightbox series and attached the close lightbox trigger to it. Simple. But then I was using my own nav buttons on the main slide, which I always prefer over using the stock nav buttons in the player.
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