Showing Seek Bar on a lightbox slide

Hi Noelle,

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if you'll be able to add the seekbar to the lightbox. However, what you could do is add some custom buttons into the lightbox slide that will pause, play or replay the media. This won't help with the volume control, but hopefully this will get you started in the right direction.

I'm attaching a very quick example I put together for you. Let me know how this works for you.

Good luck with the project!

Hi Christine,

Thanks so much, that might very well be the option I take. Thanks you for putting together the demo so I can see how you did it!

Anytime, Noelle Happy I could help!

Christine, will they be fixing this seekbar-on-a-lightbox-issue? I really like adding videos this way and it would be helpful.

Thanks!

Jamie

Hi Jamie!

I don't really think it's something that's seen as an issue, I believe it's by design, honestly. 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.

Just an idea though.. but now I may have to try this out, myself!

Thanks!

This is also how I add videos as well. It's the most functional! Especially for large files. I'll be sure to add it as a feature request! 

I was looking for this as well. Then I discovered that a video controller can be added by checking "Show Video Controls" on the options tab of the video. This suited my needs. Possibly this controller was a result of some of your feature requests? (I see the last post was several months back.)

Hi Brad! Thanks for popping in to share your thoughts on this thread.

I just wanted to welcome you to E-Learning Heroes! 

Hi all - is it possible to change the look of the video control bar? Does it have to always be grey?

I can't see how to change it in the player settings. 

Thanks!

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

Hi Paul - no, not at the moment...it always has to be "poopy grey"

Agree completely - would be great to customise it as it ruins the look of an otherwise nicely designed UI.

Bruce, thanks for popping in to assist Paul here. Nice professional color description there. I needed that laugh on a dreary Monday morning

LOL - I should have credited the Super Hero that invented the term

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. 

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. 

Did this feature get added in the end? Current workaround is to "show video controls" on the lightbox layer itself (Thanks brad) but as flagged I don't think you can then change the video controls from the standard grey.

Hello Darren and welcome to E-Learning Heroes 😊

A seekbar is not a feature available on a lightbox slide. You can include the previous/next navigation controls.

Can you share what you would like to create? We'd be happy to brainstorm ideas with you.

Hey Leslie, so this particular client wants the users to watch a video without the ability to skip the video on first watch. Then take a quiz. If they fail the quiz the user has the ability to watch the video again but can then skip, fwd, rewind at will. Originally was going to look to create this by going back to the same video slide and do some trigger magic to allow control on 2nd viewing. However they are really keen the video recap by in a lightbox layer.

Long story short, show video controls on the lightbox layer is my current solution. The video player itself looks old school but it works which is the main thing.