Tim Neill
Tim Neill
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    Tim Neill

    I provide unbiased advice and guidance in a totally independent service to ensure the successful planning, selection and implementation of eLearning to effectively train and assess staff. This service can include the development of prototypes and program models. For 24 years I was Managing Dir...
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Adding more computer voices to Text-to-Speech
"Hi Dan, Many thanks for your detailed description of TTS apps and for the three .mp3 examples. Please could you describe what is in..."
  • almost 2 years ago11/18/21 at 6:38 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Dear Father Christmas ...
"Thank you Vincent, that's very good news for SL360 users ... It is over seven years since I first requested this functionality, through t..."
  • over 3 years ago03/24/20 at 5:28 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"It is over seven years since I first requested this functionality, through the first SL, SL2 and SL3. Please don't now tell me it is only..."
  • over 3 years ago03/24/20 at 5:26 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"I love it: "We haven't released this feature yet!" Don't hold your breath Ardal - I first requested this fundamental function about 7 yea..."
  • over 3 years ago03/10/20 at 6:51 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Has anyone explored the possibility of creating code to call an external (general) video clip via a web object, specifying the start and ..."
  • over 3 years ago02/25/20 at 3:25 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"Keep going Ina! This simple functionaiity was first requested back in 2013. (here ... by others, including me). For the past 6 years I ha..."
  • over 3 years ago12/24/19 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Dear Father Christmas ...
"Hi Leslie, Thanks for your response - you are always so quick and constructive when replying on the Forum. The community is one of this p..."
  • almost 4 years ago12/21/19 at 9:51 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Dear Father Christmas ...
"Dear Father Christmas, I know my letter is rather late but I hope your clever elves may be able to bring me a few small gifts which I hav..."
  • almost 4 years ago12/20/19 at 10:55 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Does anyone have a simple way to reverse the value of a slider variable?
"That's perfect, many thanks Phil for your quick response. So simple ..."
  • almost 4 years ago12/12/19 at 4:35 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Does anyone have a simple way to reverse the value of a slider variable?
"The answer is probably staring me in the face but here goes ... I have a slider which starts at 0 and ends at 100. Initial position ..."
  • almost 4 years ago12/12/19 at 4:13 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Storyline 3 incorrectly moving a 'Multiple Choice' question on timeline
"Here's an odd one: We have a 25 question quiz comprising multi-choice, multi-response, True/False, clickable Hot spot, etc. types. It was..."
  • almost 4 years ago11/05/19 at 4:22 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion SL3 wrongly flipping objects on a motion path by 180 degrees when published
"Hi Ren, Thanks for your response. I am using SL3 Update 6: 3.6.18134.0. I am publishing for CD and running the Launch_Story.exe fi..."
  • almost 4 years ago09/24/19 at 4:26 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion SL3 wrongly flipping objects on a motion path by 180 degrees when published
"This is a bizarre SL3 problem that needs fixing. We have a .png image of an aircraft which is moved along a freeform motion path. The&nbs..."
  • 4 years ago09/23/19 at 11:40 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"Oh dear, this is still an embarrassing deficiency after all these years. I first asked for this 'feature' in 2012, along with many other ..."
  • 4 years ago09/02/19 at 2:58 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Audio not working for HTML5 output in Chrome using Storyline 360
"Hi Leslie, Many thanks for your quick response. We are running Storyline 3: Update 6: 3.6.18134.0. Your document does explain why audio i..."
  • 4 years ago07/02/19 at 8:22 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Audio not working for HTML5 output in Chrome using Storyline 360
"When will this long-standing bug of 'not playing audio on the first screen' of web-published files be fixed? It seems incredible that an ..."
  • 4 years ago06/28/19 at 10:34 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"I first posted about this deficiency in 2013 ... good job I wasn't holding my breath."
  • over 4 years ago05/28/19 at 6:35 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"Good point - there are a few occasions such as an overlayed sound effect when you'd want two audio files to be playing, but this would be..."
  • over 4 years ago03/20/19 at 3:11 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"I'd add another dozen requests to that list I've made over the years, none of which has ever been addressed with an update, just suggeste..."
  • over 4 years ago03/20/19 at 9:17 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline 2 hot spots
"Thank you for your constructive offer Alyssa. I have now got the beast working, applying a simple sequence when I knew what was needed, a..."
  • over 4 years ago03/11/19 at 3:09 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline 2 hot spots
"In case others come this way, this is the sequence of operation: My 'Hot spot' question has a single background picture and one 'hot spo..."
  • over 4 years ago03/11/19 at 3:07 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline 2 hot spots
"If I create a simple 'Pick one' question, turn off the default Player 'Submit' button, put a custom Submit button on the Base layer with ..."
  • over 4 years ago03/11/19 at 11:14 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline 2 hot spots
"Thank you Phil. Wendy Farmer's HS-SL2.story example (download above) got me on the right course and I now have it working correctly. In..."
  • over 4 years ago03/11/19 at 10:59 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline 2 hot spots
"I'm sorry but why can't you just hold your hands up when there is an obvious fault such as this in Storyline 2 and say: 'Sorry - there is..."
  • over 4 years ago03/10/19 at 5:56 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"I gave up requesting this highly useful feature years ago. It's a fundamental command whose importance and value  Articulate have neither..."
  • over 4 years ago02/12/19 at 3:49 pm (UTC)