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JoelObrecht-033
Community Member
3 years ago

Condition "is not a lightbox"

Hello,

I don't want to maintain a separate slide as a lightbox so I use my menu slide directly. Now, I'd like to know if there's a condition in the triggers such as "is not a lightbox", in order for instance to not play some audio each time the lightbox is opened. 

For now, I circumvent this using a jump in the timeline to a marker that is after the events but it is a bit tricky when the sound is conditionnally started, I have to trigger those with another object entrance and jump after this one and ... Yuck it feels a bit hacky ^^

So what do you think folks ?

 

  • Hi Joel,

    You can make use of variables in Storyline 360 to control whether audio in slides will play or not. For your requirement, you may be able to use True/False variables as an alternative to an "is not a lightbox" trigger, which is not an available trigger event in Storyline 360. 

    There is however, a 'This slide is lightboxed' condition that you can play around with which might produce the same result.

    If you're willing to share a sample project file here, I’m sure one of our talented community members will have suggestions for you.

  • MichaelHinze's avatar
    MichaelHinze
    Community Member

    You could explore if either of the Window conditions would work as part of your trigger.

  • Thank you @Michael : That's exactly the condition I was referring to : I'd to have a condition "is not lightboxed" :)

    @Joe : I guess I'll have to create additional variables to track if the audio has been read so it's not triggered when the slide is used as a lightbox.

    Thanks I guess it's the best course of action, though it might be great to have the feature "is not lightboxed" :)

  • MichaelHinze's avatar
    MichaelHinze
    Community Member

    Then you might want to try the other option. Isn't the "This slide is inside the player frame" the equivalent of a slide not being lightboxed?

  • Wooooah

    That's totally it !!! I didn't understand what that option meant and so I didn't try it (LOL I guess it's time to have some rest) but indeed it works like a charm !!!

    Thank you so much !!!