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Thanks Judy for your reply! :)
I am a bit confused when you say "resuming" the timeline doesn't finish playing the timeline because I was able to do exactly that when I was trying out another possible solution.
See screenshot below of my set up. I hope it's big enough to see.
I paused the timeline at the 14.9 second mark. I created an object called "Show Me". The trigger for that object (highlighted in blue) says "when the user clicks Show Me, resume the timeline on this slide". And when I previewed it, that is exactly what it did. It finished playing the rest of the timeline on that slide. It did not restart the timeline. It picked up from 14.9 seconds, played the remaining second or two left on that slide.
Then, I had a second trigger for the slide that said to jump to the next slide when the timeline ends.
But the client wants to use the Next button on the player. So, what the client wants to have happen is at the pause, if the user clicks Next, the timeline would unpause and finish playing the timeline (as it did in the possible solution I posted above) and then at the end of the timeline it would go to the next slide.
I just don't understand why once I combine these two actions under one trigger, it won't execute in the order it displays in the Trigger Panel.
- JudyNollet12 months agoSuper Hero
First, I'll clarify. Yes, a trigger to resume the timeline will restart it from the point where it was paused. And it will continue playing until the end — unless it is interrupted. In your case, the "jump to next slide" trigger was interrupting it, because that trigger runs immediately after the "resume" trigger. The program can't keep playing the slide if it's already left the slide.
As for how your client wants to use the Next button. Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to use the Next button for actions other than jumping to the next slide. Next should go Next. That's how the standard user interface works.
That said, here's how to get the slide to work like you want it to:
- Keep the trigger that resumes the timeline when the Next button is clicked.
- Delete the trigger that jumps to the next slide when the Next button is clicked.
- Add a trigger that jumps to the next slide when the timeline ends.