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sarahrydgren's avatar
sarahrydgren
Community Member
4 years ago

Dials / Sliders, disabling the user from skipping ahead

I am attempting to make modules more interactive by using dials and sliders, but have several layers of text / audio involved.  I am having difficulty with figuring out how to make it so the user has to move the dial/slider without skipping ahead. 

 

I've made layers with text / images and when the dial or slider moves, the layer shows, and then the dial is hidden until the audio completes.  However, if the user rotates the dial too far, it plays out of order, and if they move the dial backwards all the audio clips seem to play at once (not optimal) 

Any advice?  I've watched the intro to dials and sliders tutorial on here, thinking about scrapping the entire idea at this point

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  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    4 years ago

    Hi, Sarah,

    Dials and sliders are useful in lots of situations. But they can also be tricky to implement (and sometimes tricky to use). So, in this case, I think you'd be better off using buttons to access the layers. 

  • PhilMayor's avatar
    PhilMayor
    Super Hero
    4 years ago

    NO reason why it wouldn't work with sliders or a dial. Is the audio on the layers? Are you making sure that the layers are hiding other layers?

    • sarahrydgren's avatar
      sarahrydgren
      Community Member
      4 years ago

      I tried having the audio on the layers, and it was very gnarly sounding because the user could rotate the dial while the main audio on baselayer was playing.  I made it so that the dial would HIDE while layer audio is playing, then reappear after the audio is done.  I am going to change the layers to stay on screen instead of hiding too

       

  • sarahrydgren's avatar
    sarahrydgren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Is there a way I could keep the dial on screen and not allow the user to rotate it to skip ahead?

     

  • sarahrydgren's avatar
    sarahrydgren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    So I was able to implement a hot spot that can stop the dial from being rotated in between layers and clips, but I still have the issue of the user potentially rotating the dial too far past each number and multiple audio clips playing at once.  Does anyone have any ideas how to overcome this?

     

  • sarahrydgren's avatar
    sarahrydgren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This is the best I can do, the project file is huge and I am terrified of it crashing. The file already has become corrupt once and left me with an entire day of work lost

     

  • RichardMulcahy-'s avatar
    RichardMulcahy-
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    You can always just copy this slide and then create a new project and paste the slide in. Just need to look at this one slide

  • sarahrydgren's avatar
    sarahrydgren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I thought so too, until my last project.  I will make a copy of the project file and then do that

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