April 4, 2019
Captivate 9 Timeline Issue
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April 4, 2019
Captivate 9 Timeline Issue
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Hello. I am attempting to modify a lesson produced in Captivate 9 that works fine but now I need to add audio. I don’t want the “Next” button to appear until the audio is finished. One the first slide where I’ve added audio using the text-to-speech option, I have the next button appearing as desired near the end of the audio playback.

However, on any other slide, I can’t get the Next button to appear at all after expanding the timeline to make room for the audio. The Next button has all the same properties and is configured to appear 20 seconds after the slide starts and pause after 2.5 seconds to wait for the user to select the button. This is timed well with the audio and gives the effect I’m after.

Playing the slide in the editing interface suggests is should work just fine; the Next button appears as expected. However, when published to an EXE file or to an HTML5 product, the Next button simply NEVER shows up!

I’ve built a quick 3 slide test and in that setting it works as expected when published. But in this real lesson, full of graphics, text, and now audio that stretches the timeline, it fails totally. There are no other actions in the project that hide or show these navigation buttons. I am simply trying to rely on the timeline to show the button at the right time.

Can anyone please suggest a cause and even better, a solution to this?

Thanks, Peter

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2019-04-12 13:17:27
2019-04-12 13:17:27

Were you able to solve the problem? It has been more than one week since I added a comment. The most recent version of 9 starts with 9.0.2.

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2019-04-05 06:57:02
2019-04-05 06:57:02

Please post a screenshot of the Timeline. Tell also the exact version number as you can find under Help, About Captivate.

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