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AmyGtt's avatar
AmyGtt
Community Member
2 months ago

Variable not changing button state

I've got a pretty complicated situation. I am creating a compliance course that a user must be in each module for 30 minutes. There are 9 modules. When the course begins, they can't leave the co...
Button State
JavaScript
variables
SamHill's avatar
SamHill
Super Hero
2 months ago

Hi AmyGtt I think your best approach would be to not use the %correctedElapsedTime% variable as the trigger. As you said, it is a text variable, and so you cannot use the >= operator to determine if 30 minutes has been met.

You could just have a Boolean variable, for example %timesUp% initialialised as FALSE. Then, on your main timeline you could trigger your Button - 2 "Next" to normal when it is updated to TRUE.

You would then just need to add some more JS to to trigger that change.

// Update elapsed time
function updateElapsedTime() {
    if (isTabActive && isFocused) { 
        elapsedTime++;
        var minutes = Math.floor(elapsedTime / 60);
        var seconds = elapsedTime % 60;
        var formattedTime = minutes + ":" + (seconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + seconds;
        player.SetVar("correctedElapsedTime", formattedTime);
       // ** NEW SCRIPT HERE ** //
       // Is time up?
       if(elapsedTime >= 1800000) player.SetVar("timesUp",true);
    }
}
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