Button widget pauses audio

Using Captivate 5, I inserted the Button.SWF widget. The button has the action "Open URL or file." The slide has audio on it. If I play the slide within Captivate, using the play button on the timeline, the audio plays perfectly. However, when previewing the slide, the audio comes to an abrupt stop soon after the button appears.
I don't see a Pause After setting for the button widget, either in the Widget Properties or in the Properties panel.
If it would help anyone to take a look at the slide, let me know by private message and I'll provide a link. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Hi Jay,
Are you talking about the Buttons widget or the Flash button? If it is the first, which is a static widget, in CP5.0 it has a pausing point that you cannot change (about at 10 secs if I remember well). Captivate 5.5 ships with a static button widget that has no pausing point, and the team created also one that pauses at half its duration.
But what you describe seems to be something else, because you say that audio stops immediately when the button appears? And you want this button to be there, to open an URL when user clicks?
What do you mean by 'play the slide within Captivate'? Is that F3 which is not a real preview because no SWF is created? And the other preview is one of the other options?
Lilybiri

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Regarding your first concerns : For the static button widget we didn't want to make it to pause the slide at any time. This would behave just like any other static captivate object though we could have actions associated with it which would get triggered on clicking this. However you could enter a feature request whereby this widget pause time could be set as a parameter(in the Widget Properties dialog) which would make it pause at that time for user to click.This would be helpful when this widget is inserted on Question slides. Pausing at 6.5 secs is a bit misleading so this property was removed from the Widget.
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Hi there
There should be several ways to accomplish this.
* If the audio is at the slide level, stage it so it doesn't
"appear" until .5, .6 or .7 seconds in. Then configure the button
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* Configure the button with a Success caption and attach the
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* Insert the audio on the next slide and have the button
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There are other ways as well. Just tossed out a few.
Cheers... Rick

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I am pretty new to captivate (using 5) so am not sure if this is a bug or if there is something else I need to add to my slides,
I have used the button widget to create forward and back buttons on my master slide to give the user control of the presentation. On the first time through the presentation the forward button works fine with the slides not advancing until this has been pressed but if I use the back button at any point in the presentation it then plays at the original speed runnign through all of the slides.
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Not sure if I understand the issue, have been using the button widget on master slides.
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Superman859 wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Flash, but have gotten the hang of it
for the most part.
>
> I'm trying to create audio buttons that will play
vocabulary words when
> clicked on for a language learning website. I can create
buttons that play
> audio when clicked, but as of now the only way I know
how to do it is to add
> the audio directly to the swf file. The problem is this
takes up about 24kb of
> space, and there will be about 20 copies of the button
per page, each for a
> different vocabulary word.
http://www.kennybellew.com/tutorial/
Very detail tutorials on Sound in flash, from basic stop/play
to complex,
dynamic players with all kind of bells and whistles
Best Regards
Urami
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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//..........................Template for Static Widget(AS3)....................
//flash construct to use external interface : This is needed to use flash functionality for communication between two swfs
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import fl.controls.ComboBox;
var widgetMode:String = '';
var widgetParam:String = '';
var varHand:Object = null;
var movieHandle:Object = null;
XML.prettyIndent = 0;
XML.prettyPrinting = false;
XML.ignoreWhitespace = true;
var checkUpdatedXML = false;
var playedByButton = false;
var pauseFrame = 0;
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var myData:String = '<element1><textProperties><font face="Trebuchet MS" style="" size="12"/><textDecoration bold="true" underline="false" italic="false"/><color textColor="0x000000" highlightRequired="false" highlightColor="0xffffff"/></textProperties><captions style="BUTTON_1" themeLabel="0" backColor="0xffffcc" eventAssign="" eventParam="" txtXPos="9" txtYPos="4" imgXPos="190" imgYPos="40" a="1" b="0" c="0" d="1" tx="0" ty="0" bgSelected="false" borderColor="0xff9933" borderSelected="false" containerXPos="" containerYPos=""><text visible="true" width="42" height="20" a="1" b="0" c="0" d="1" tx="18" ty="4">Button</text><image visible="false" width="22" height="18" a="1" b="0" c="0" d="1" tx="NaN" ty="NaN"></image></captions></element1>';
var xmlConfig:String = '<configs><styles label="Ivory" movieclip="BUTTON_1" backColor=""/><styles label="Frosted" movieclip="BUTTON_8" backColor=""/><styles label="Grey Space" movieclip="BUTTON_9" backColor=""/><styles label="Honey Comb" movieclip="BUTTON_10" backColor=""/><styles label="Mountain Blue" movieclip="BUTTON_11" backColor=""/><styles label="Aero" movieclip="BUTTON_12" backColor=""/><styles label="Gradient" movieclip="BUTTON_13" backColor=""/><styles label="Vivid 1" movieclip="BUTTON_14" backColor=""/><styles label="Vivid 2" movieclip="BUTTON_15" backColor=""/><styles label="Aqua" movieclip="BUTTON_16" backColor=""/><styles label="Glitter" movieclip="BUTTON_17" backColor=""/></configs>';
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var myWM = "";
var mc:MovieClip;
CaptionMc.visible = false;
textFormatterMc.visible = false;
//update ();
var objName;
function fnHandleButtonEvent (evt:MouseEvent)
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var otherCursor;
var downState = false;
function initCursor(arr:Array){
    cursor = new Cursor();
    cursor.mouseEnabled = false
    cursor.visible = false;
    addChild(cursor);
    otherCursor = new StretchCursor();
    otherCursor.mouseEnabled = false
    otherCursor.visible = false;
    addChild(otherCursor);
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        arr[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, hideCursor)
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        arr[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, hideOtherCursor)
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    this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, hideOtherCursor);
function showCursor(e:MouseEvent){
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    if(!downState && txt.type == "dynamic"){
        cursor.visible = true;
        cursor.startDrag(true)
        Mouse.hide();
function hideCursor(e:MouseEvent){
    if(!downState){
        cursor.stopDrag()
        cursor.visible = false;
        Mouse.show();
function showOtherCursor(e:MouseEvent){
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    if(txt.type == "dynamic"){
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        otherCursor.startDrag(true)
        otherCursor.visible = true;
        Mouse.hide();
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    otherCursor.stopDrag()
    otherCursor.visible = false;
    Mouse.show();
function removeAllChildren(mcRef:MovieClip){
    for(var i=(mcRef.numChildren-1); i>=0; i--){
        mcRef.removeChildAt(i);
function imageLoaded (e:Event)
    var mc = e.target.content;
    mc.width = Number(myXML.captions.image. @ width);
    mc.height = Number(myXML.captions.image. @ height);
function getBool (str:String):Boolean
    var ret:Boolean;
    if (str == "true")
        ret = true;
    else
        ret = false;
    return ret;
function getModifiedXML ():String
    return myXML.toString();
//to register enter frame function
this.addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,onEnterEveryFrame);
//Captivate App will not recognize a Static Widget unless this function is implemented and returns true
function isStatic ():Boolean
    return true;//denotes that this is indeed a Captivate Interactive Learning Object
//a object needs to be created and values filled in . This is taken by captivate and stored as //xml string. This is the mean to pass values between captivate and widget swf.
function getInspectorParameters ():Object
    //dev//Apply
    //set the data in _parameters fields. This is called by captivate to get the values of widget swf
    var _parameters: Object = new Object();
    _parameters.dataXML = getModifiedXML();
    return _parameters;
// whenever widget is inserted the widget swf is passed on the parameters stored inside captivate so that it is drawn in updated stage.
function setInspectorParameters (inParam:Object):void
    //Dev//on Double click //edit window
    myData = inParam.dataXML;
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//parameters like OK to widget dialog and stage swf is updated with the current values.
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    if (inParam.dataXML != null)
        //redraw the widget as parameters has changed
        //dev//OK button
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        myWM = widgetMode;
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function cpSetValue (variable:String, val):void
    if (variable == 'movieHandle')
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http://www.m-gd.com/virtual-keyboard-captivate-widget-en/

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