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Previous Slide Trigger
I have used buttons for next/previous links instead of using the default ones on the player. I have placed them on the master slide and applied the previous/next triggers to them. They function cor...
The issue is that it doesn't make sense from a logical standpoint: if the NEXT trigger goes to the "next slide" chronologically, why doesn't the PREVIOUS trigger go to the "previous slide" chronologically as well? If I go forward with 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4, the reverse should be possible.
However, if the user is too curious and uses the MENU to navigate from 1.1 to 1.4, then the PREVIOUS trigger goes back to 1.1 instead of 1.3, because it's actually the "last seen slide". If I flip a book to from page 1 to page 50, I should back to page 49, not page 1.
This is considerably annoying when you have to hardcode every PREVIOUS button on 20, 35 or even 50 slides.
Agreed, Jean-Christophe, but I personally can see a functional purpose for BOTH scenarios.
For example, someone is sitting on slide 25 and might want to quickly review something in an earlier slide so they click on a menu item which jumps them maybe 20 slides earlier. Once they have finished reviewing that slide they might want to immediately return to where they were, but if they press the back button and they are taken only 1 slide behind where they are now, it may be hard for them to get back to where they came from (except by using another menu item again, maybe).
I'd like to have BOTH options available to me (and to the learner) so they can either press a back button (moves linearly back by 1 slide) or they can press a return/previous button to go back to where they last were.
Acrobat provides BOTH navigation methods and I use them both - regularly.
Completely agree with Brett Conlon.
Scott
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