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Enabling the next button only when the entrance text box animation finishes the last paragraph
Hello!
I am relatively new to Articulate and can't solve this (probably) simple problem.
Namely, I would like the next button to be enabled only when all of the text in the text box appears on t...
The triggers in the screenshot are set up correctly. However, it looks like the entrance animation only lasts for 1 second.
Since you didn't upload a copy of the .story file, I'll just guess that you set the animation to play "By Paragraph." That will make each item appear separately, so that all the text appears over a longer time, e.g., one second per paragraph. However, the program sees the animation as complete after 1 second, so that's when it adjusts the variable that enables the Next button.
I suggest you do this instead:
- Change the "when" for the trigger that adjusts the variable and the one that enables Next, so they both run when the timeline reaches an appropriate point after all of the objects appear on the slide. For example "when timeline reaches 12 seconds."
As in the note I added to the screenshot, there's no reason to have such a long timeline. It'd be much easier to shorten that so you could use "when the timeline ends" for the triggers.