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 Simple JavaScript code for SL2 to display an animated gif?
"Thanks Darren. I downloaded the test.story and can see what you're doing. It works well and your 'Normal' state animated gif stops playin..."
  • over 8 years ago09/18/15 at 10:34 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Simple JavaScript code for SL2 to display an animated gif?
"Thank you all for your suggestions. Changing the state of the animated gif at a cue point does then display my 'last frame' png image, bu..."
  • over 8 years ago09/18/15 at 9:34 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Animated GIF playback
"When will SL2 handle animated gifs correctly? I have created a simple 16 frame animation of an aircraft moving (plan view) through 90 de..."
  • over 8 years ago09/07/15 at 3:04 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Animated GIF playback
"When will SL2 handle animated gifs correctly? I have created a simple 16 frame animation of an aircraft moving (plan view) through 90 deg..."
  • over 8 years ago09/07/15 at 2:47 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Spurious empty white text box overlays Windows desktop in Storyboard 2 in Slide view
"I can see what confused me ... with the 'Notes' panel un-docked I must have reduced my screen resolution and so obscured the top and left..."
  • over 8 years ago08/21/15 at 9:22 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Spurious empty white text box overlays Windows desktop in Storyboard 2 in Slide view
"Ah! So simple - thanks Leslie, that's exactly what I had done. I rarely undock and never use the Notes panel. Now I know ... "
  • over 8 years ago08/18/15 at 7:41 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Spurious empty white text box overlays Windows desktop in Storyboard 2 in Slide view
"Hi Leslie, Here's the screen shot again with the empty white text box at left. I can reduce its size with its handles but why is it sudd..."
  • over 8 years ago08/17/15 at 5:35 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Hotspot questions not returning correct answer
"Ah-ha. That should teach me to search for a solution before calling it a bug! Thank you Ashley - the answer IS to put the custom Submit ..."
  • over 8 years ago08/12/15 at 8:09 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Hotspot questions not returning correct answer
"Hi Leslie, Thanks, I attach a very simple test .story file of four slides. They were all created from new slides, under 'Quizzing'. None..."
  • over 8 years ago08/11/15 at 9:30 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Saving and retrieving 'essay' question text in an LMS
"Ashley and Brian - many thanks to you both. Need to do some testing!"
  • almost 9 years ago07/16/15 at 3:23 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Saving and retrieving 'essay' question text in an LMS
"Thank you Ashley. The user would only be required to view their previously entered text and answers at the later session, not to edit. Th..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/16/15 at 7:59 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Saving and retrieving 'essay' question text in an LMS
"Hi, I would really appreciate some suggestions. I want to capture 'free' text user responses (maybe 500 words) in an SL2 'Essay' questio..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/15/15 at 10:20 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Thanks very much Chad. Yes, that¹s the solution I¹ve had to use, although not ideal for keeping content up to date. Regards, Tim"
  • almost 9 years ago05/19/15 at 4:07 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Can you give some indication of whether and when this important timeline control function will be added? "
  • almost 9 years ago05/19/15 at 10:13 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Steve - it's a simple 'bullet build' on a slide but I want to be able to let the user jump through the build before the audio narration f..."
  • 9 years ago04/30/15 at 6:44 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Thank you both.    Ashley - if I use 'hide other layers' I'll lose the built-up text points. I would need to pause  all layers when goi..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 2:25 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Cue points
"This is a serious deficiency. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layers and t..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 8:24 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Storyline timeline control and synch issues
"This is a serious deficiency in SL2. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layer..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 7:59 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"This is a serious deficiency. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layers and t..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 7:57 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion storyline 2 vs storyline ....trigger to navigate to a "cue point" in timeline
"This is a serious deficiency. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layers and t..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 7:57 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"This is a serious deficiency. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layers and t..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 7:56 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion oncklick jump to cue point in timeline
"This is a serious deficiency. 'Feature request' just submitted. It is really tedious to have to split content onto separate layers and t..."
  • 9 years ago04/29/15 at 7:48 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Concatenating a list of text strings - and - displaying a custom assessment score variable on a Results page
"Do you have a simple example of the use of setting your own score using an overlay in this way? Thanks again, Tim"
  • 9 years ago02/26/15 at 9:11 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Concatenating a list of text strings - and - displaying a custom assessment score variable on a Results page
"Many thanks for the advice Steve - most appreciated. Yes please, an example of the JavaScript code for posting to an array then bringing..."
  • 9 years ago02/26/15 at 9:10 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Concatenating a list of text strings - and - displaying a custom assessment score variable on a Results page
"A bit greedy, but three questions for the price of one! I would really appreciate your suggestions on the best approach for these situati..."
  • 9 years ago02/25/15 at 4:41 pm (UTC)