Restricting buttons advancing before voiceover stops

Mar 19, 2013

Elle Linklater
By Elle Linklater

I have buttons on a layer and want the user to hear the complete voiceover before advancing on the next button in the layer.  Does any one know how to restrict the user from advancing until after voiceover stops?

Thank you..Heros

Elle

9 Replies
Christine Hendrickson
11 years ago03/20/13 at 7:46 am (UTC)

Hi Elle!

Personally, I would do this with a True/False variable and a condition on the "Next" button. You'd need a trigger to adjust the variable to True (set the initial value to False) when the media completes. When that variable is equal to True, the user will then be able to continue to the next slide or scene when they click the "Next" button. 

Here's a look at how you could set this up:

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Let me know if this helps

Thanks!

Elle Linklater
11 years ago03/20/13 at 9:08 am (UTC)

Hi Christine,

Yes Thank you.. these are custom buttons on each layer. The Learner is to click on each button but not until the voice over is completed.  So I would like to restrict being able to click on the the list of buttons until the voiceover is completed... I have uploaded to file so you can have a look if needed.

Thank you again

Christine Hendrickson
11 years ago04/09/13 at 10:47 am (UTC)

Hi there Astrid! :)

If you can tell me what you'd like to do with variables, maybe I can give you some suggestions or work up an example file :)

There's quite a few tutorials. I'm not sure which one you've already seen, but I thought I'd share them just in case:

[TUTORIAL] States, Variables & Triggers (thread)

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