Showing Seek Bar on a lightbox slide

Hi again.

I answered one of my own questions. When I uncheck the "show navigation controls" box in the trigger, it takes away the grey box and makes the slide look much cleaner. I'm guessing you just can't show the seek bar or volume control in a light box slide?

Hi Noelle,

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if you'll be able to add the seekbar to the lightbox. However, what you could do is add some custom buttons into the lightbox slide that will pause, play or replay the media. This won't help with the volume control, but hopefully this will get you started in the right direction.

I'm attaching a very quick example I put together for you. Let me know how this works for you.

Good luck with the project!

Hi Christine,

Thanks so much, that might very well be the option I take. Thanks you for putting together the demo so I can see how you did it!

Anytime, Noelle Happy I could help!

Christine, will they be fixing this seekbar-on-a-lightbox-issue? I really like adding videos this way and it would be helpful.

Thanks!

Jamie

Hi Jamie!

I don't really think it's something that's seen as an issue, I believe it's by design, honestly. The lightbox really isn't designed to function like a fully opened slide. However, I totally see the value in adding the option to it. If you haven't already, you might want to join me in submitting a feature request for this. 

In the meantime - I was thinking about the example course I made earlier for Noelle and I thought of another way you could do this. You could mimic the seekbar even more on the lightbox by creating a large, thing rectangle and customizing it. You could even make one that looks pretty similar to the default style of the seekbar for slides. You could add a pause/play trigger to the bar, or even just create that little pause/play button to the left. You could have pause show under specific conditions, or play show for others.

Just an idea though.. but now I may have to try this out, myself!

Thanks!

This is also how I add videos as well. It's the most functional! Especially for large files. I'll be sure to add it as a feature request! 

I was looking for this as well. Then I discovered that a video controller can be added by checking "Show Video Controls" on the options tab of the video. This suited my needs. Possibly this controller was a result of some of your feature requests? (I see the last post was several months back.)

Hi Brad! Thanks for popping in to share your thoughts on this thread.

I just wanted to welcome you to E-Learning Heroes! 

Hi all - is it possible to change the look of the video control bar? Does it have to always be grey?

I can't see how to change it in the player settings. 

Thanks!