Pausing the timeline, Without requiring user interaction

Hi Kevin

The easiest way to pause the slide timeline is to open a layer, and in order to trigger it at a certain point in the timeline follow these steps:

• Add a shape and move it off the slide into the grey area of the screen
• Adjust the starting point of this shape by dragging it to the right within the timeline
• Create a new layer and add your additional information to it, and also a way of closing the layer
• Create a trigger that shows the layer when the timeline of the shape starts
• In the layer properties make sure your layer pauses the timeline of the base layer

See the example on slide one of this quick sequence

Hope this helps,

H

Hi Kevin,

You could try pausing it by using an off-screen shape.

Hope that helps.

Thanks Helen. This is great solution. Thanks for the example too.

Thanks Harri. You offer an alternative to Helen's solution in that you don't need to create a layer. I don't know if i'm missing something but I could not get this to work...

Cheers

Kevin

I didn't need off-stage objects to pause a Layer timeline without user participation.

CONTEXT: On top of my base layer I created different layers that are invoked according to a user-informed variable. When the user is then sent to one of those layers, the timeline stops until the user selects a button which sends them to a different Scene.

To get the timeline to auto stop, on the layer:

1. TRIGGER: Set up a trigger to pause the timeline at a Cue point.

2. SLIDE LAYER PROPERTIES: select these:

Hide other slide layers.

Allow Seeking: NO.

Present as: LAYER.

Prevent user from clicking other layers.

Pause timeline of base layer.

When revisiting: Reset to Initial State.