Pause/Play button question?

I've set up the manual Pause/Play button configuration in a project I'm working on using Steve's directions using the isPlaying variable.  I can now pause and play, but it stops the progression of layers on the slide.  For example if a slide has 3 layers that automatically play, and a person pauses while on layer 1; when they hit Play -  that layer will finish, but the other layers will not play.

okay  I have a video from recording screen and on the time line want the whole thing to pause not just the video

Help 

by the way congratulations to USA in the world cup

Hi Josephine,

Have you looked into the method here to pause the timeline of a slide? 

I found this quick tutorial to be helpful--and very easy, too:

http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/how-to-pause-the-timeline-of-a-slide

Hi Steve,

I am running into a problem maybe that's the way it is. The scrubber resets itself every time the pause button is hit. It does not freeze. This confuses the user. 

any way to fix that?

In Storyline 2, you can now use triggers to pause/resume the timeline of layers.

So right now I can click on the video itself and it pauses and when I click on it again it plays. This is Storyline default settings.

I was hopping a play/pause button would pop up with it to indicate action feedback.

Sinchu there is an alternative way I just worked out. Its a bit more work:

 I am adding buttons and applying triggers, to pause and play video and hide and make the button visible.

Each button will have a transparent surface to cover the entire video area. There is no scrubber yet and I have to see if i can figure that out.

There are alternatives to that as well.

Hi Ahssan,

You can enable the video controls as described here to have a built in play/pause button. 

Ashley you are a life saver.
I was yesterday asking in the forum and people were saying that it was not possible and I was thinking there should be a way.
How come the articulate developer and designers did not think of that.
I guess there are so many tabs and features in all different directions that I overlooked this option.

I spend a lot of time creating something that I don’t need cause this ROCKS.
thank you very much.

ahssan

Hi Ahssan,

Glad that helped you and that I was able to point you in the direction you needed. 

Very nice job! I am editing a module that was built in Articulate Storyline 1 and this helped me out greatly! It also taught me a few lessons on variable coding.

Thank you!

Glad this helped you out Jacob and thanks for updating us. 

Thanks David

unfortunately my organization blocks my access to personal storage sites like the one Steve used so I am unable to view those files

Hi Larry, 

This thread dates back a ways - so I'm not certain which files you're looking to access. If you could be more specific I could see if I can still access them and then attach them as a part of the forums reply here.

I am having the same need. The demo/.story files on this thread no longer exist. Can someone point me in the right direction?