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Trigger before a "timeline ends"
Hi DanielChodos I'm pleased to announce that I did it! In fact, ChapGPT did all the work. 😄 Let me explain.
I was very surprised when I looked at your .story file. In all possible cases, SlideElapsedTime is only known at the END of the slide. “Elapsed” is a clue, even for me, who doesn't speak English very well. So, anticipating a temporal event based on an unknown final duration is... difficult.
I just spent 3 hours this morning making Chappy sweat over the difficulty of finding the expected duration of the slide. He failed a dozen times. Finally, I suggested he look at the progress bar, since its scrolling speed automatically adapts to the final duration as soon as the slide starts. Indeed, in the debugging console, it has a “max” value of 5000 if the slide duration is 5s, 10000 if the duration is 10s, and so on. Chappy warmly congratulated me on this idea and I was very proud of it. The rest was pretty quick.
Everything works exactly as you want it to, I think, whatever the length of the slide. Even if you remove the progress bar! Give it a try. The timing (-2s, -5s) of the event is adjustable in the JScode. You can now duplicate this slide and change its duration in the timeline.
Look at the .story file. It's all there: slides 2 and 3.
I'd like to know if this works for you.
Hello DanielChodos! I'm interested to hear how others in the community have set up their courses to achieve something similar. As far as functionality goes, you could add a trigger that includes conditions. For example, if the timeline reaches a certain point and other criteria are met, like the state of an object changes.
It would be helpful if you could share your project file so we can see what you've created so far! You can share the .story file as an attachment in this discussion.