Workarounds for Chrome timing issues pausing a timeline
Aug 17, 2018
We find that pausing the timeline is unreliable for Chrome playback in all but one scenario: Showing a layer that stops the timeline. Seems to be our only solid method so far.
To show a layer on an object trigger there are five choices:
Animation completes, object intersects, object intersection ends, object enters slide, object leaves slide.
We tried object enters or leaves slide and could not get a trigger to fire to show a layer.
Do we understand correctly that entering a slide refers to where the object starts on the timeline or maybe we misunderstand.
Our workaround was to add a 1/4 second fade to the object entrance. We found that the trigger will fire and show the layer on the entrance animation completing.
Whew!
Any comments?
Sam
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As far as I know 'Enter' and 'Leave' slide refers to an object either being offstage and then moving within the slide dimensions, or leaving the visible slide area. It has nothing to do wit the timeline. See attached a quick example that (I think) illustrates that.
Also, here is a published version that does work for me in Chrome.
Well, that would explain it. Nuts that there is no trigger on the object appearing.
Sam
Maybe I misunderstand, but there is a trigger 'on the object appearing', it's a 'When timeline starts' trigger that is attached to an object.
Well, that's another ambiguity. I understood "When the timeline starts" as referring to the slide. I should have tried it on the object.
A better name would be "When the object timeline begins". This would make sense for the slide or an object timeline.
"When the timeline starts" refers to the slide's timeline IF the trigger is a slider trigger (not attached to an object). For an object trigger, it refers to the object that is selected in the trigger wizard.
I was griping about how the term could be clarified. "Timeline start" is at best ambiguous. "When the object timeline begins" is less so.
Sam
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