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Showing Seek Bar on a lightbox slide
Hi everyone,
I did a quick search and didn't find anything addressing this questio:
Are you able to show the seek bar on a light box slide?
I have a number of video clips that I am showing by way of several light box slides. I'd like to show the seek bar so users can rewind and watch the video again if they like. But when I select the seekbar in the slide properties, it doesn't show up when the slide is playing. Instead it's just showing a grey bar along the bottom. It's also not showing the volume control button which is selected on the global player properties.
If I can't show the seek bar and volume, I'd like to just get rid of that grey bar at least.
Any ideas?
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Hi Paul! Are you asking about the seekbar? Those player colors can be found in this job aid reference.
Hi Leslie,
Not the Seek Bar, but the video progress bar (sits under the video when you select 'show video controls')
Thanks,
Paul
Bruce, thanks for popping in to assist Paul here. Nice professional color description there. I needed that laugh on a dreary Monday morning
That must mean it wasn't you
Hey gang. I am looking to control the entire slide on a lightbox, not just a piece of media. I have some audio and animations that come in and out and I would like the user to be able to pause, play, and restart the entire slide.
Any ideas?
Hi Joe,
Did you see Christine's originally suggestion? I haven't seen a seekbar or the ability to play/pause/restart the lightbox slide for the reasons Christine mentioned but her suggestion sounds like a good start.
Christine Hendrickson said:
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.
Instead of using a lightbox, how would you open a new slide in a new window? I'm having trouble doing so in an LMS-posted course.
Hi Cheryl,
What type of slide are you wanting to open in a new window? And by "new window" do you mean a new window in the course, or a new browser window?
If in the course, you could simply use a layer and design it so that it appears to be a separate window.
If you're wanting to open a slide in a new browser window, that might be a little difficult. It also depends on the content you want in that window. If it's not truly a slide from that course, you might be able to do this. You could insert a hyperlink for a page or content that's on the web and then set that hyperlink to open in a new browser window. Just keep in mind that the behavior for this may vary, depending on the web browser you or your learners are using.
If you could provide a little more detail, maybe we can share some additional suggestions :)
Thanks and happy holidays!
I'm having the same issue as noted above - if a user wants to pause/play the entire slide, not just the audio how do i build that in a seekbar? I get how to pause/play media but it doesn't pause and resume the timeline. Any thoughts?
Hi Lauren,
The built in seekbar has a play/pause button that when used would pause/play that slide's entire timeline (including audio or media). If you don't want to use the seekbar, this method allows a way to pause the timeline.
