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How to show time/duration on seekbar
Walt, everything you said is correct, but beside the point. The issue being discussed here is that the player/Seekbar timeline cannot display elapsed/total time in the same way that the video controls can. Using both would be clunky. Using only the video controls would sacrifice the additional functions the player seekbar offers. Plus, it looks outdated and you have to shrink the video size to fit the video controls on screen, which creates a letterbox effect.
Displaying elapsed/total time pretty straightforward feature that anyone who uses video in their training might expect. It could also be added as a feature that can be toggled before publishing (as are CC, Accessibility Controls, etc.).
I completely agree.
I find this forum to be paradoxical in that the Articulate representatives are very polite and typically try to be helpful.
and yet....
Its baffling that Articulate ignores the overwhelming, years-long requests to build a feature that ANY half-competent Learning Experience Designer can understand is a NECESSARY feature for any modern learning UX.
And not just ignores, but pretends not to understand why it is even requested, or makes ridiculous claims about development priorities, which fall apart when it drags on for YEARS.
My guess as to why? The code-base of the app just isn't written properly in such a way that it could be enhanced in this way. And companies will ALWAYS give disengenuous answers and borderline-gaslight their customers so they can continue to milk their aging code-bases rather than do the hard work of actually fixing foundational issues. Its the reason I left Captivate for Storyline in the first place.
But guess what? Even the Adobe development team has figured out how to add a time counter to a playbar. And for both PC AND Mac platform.
This is exhausting. Clearly, they understand why we want this, and they know that it SHOULD have been a feature from version 1.0.1 onward. They just don't WANT to add it, for a reason that only makes sense to them.