Ah!!! The light bulb went off thanks to both responses from Nedim and Judy.
My expectation was that the first action (which takes a couple seconds) would finish and once that action finishes then the second action would execute after that. But, both are happening at the same time. Light Bulb moment! :)
Judy - I had already thought of your suggestion (in your second response) and had tried it out. Thank you for that. I probably should have mentioned that as well. It does works, but there is a negative user experience in my particular scenario. If the user clicks Next early on the slide (I have an audio clip playing and some captions appearing and disappearing.) what happens is the trigger is doing exactly what it's supposed to do...resume the timeline. So, from the user perspective, the Next button isn't doing what they would expect, but it's doing what the trigger is telling it to do.
Judy - I agree with you about not using the Player's Next button for this. I think I'll try to convince them to not use it.
Ultimately, what the client wants is to combine a "Try Me" and a "Show Me" into one simulation.
I created a "Try Me" only version where I had captions telling the user what to click on in addition to highlighting what the learner is supposed to click on in yellow.
They client thought there still might be a chance the user won't understand what do to, which is why they wanted to include a mouse movement as a way of showing the user what they should have done and then automatically move on to the next step.
I've typically seen Try Me and Show Me as separate simulations and the learner chooses one or the other, but I haven't found one that combines both into one.
Thanks everyone! This was driving me crazy! :)
