Adding a Glossary button which doesnt move the timeline on !

I'm using Captivate 3. On each page there is a
backwards/forwards button. On this one module we've now added a
'Glossary button'. If the user clicks this it opens up a external
PDF file in a seperate window. That works fine.
Say they are at the end of a page , the page is paused as its
waiting for them to click Back/Forward or Menu.
However if they click the Glossary button this moves the
timeline forward as its a kind of 'continue' which is frustrating
as it then moves to the next page. I just want them to be able to
click Glossary as many times as they want and the program doesnt
move on a page.
Has anyone come across this before ? Just want a button which
doesnt seem to move on ! Its not set to continue at all. Just set
to open an external file
Regards

Hello P_SJ,
The way I would tackle this would be to create the button in
Adobe Flash (including the link to the PDF document) and then
import this into Captivate as an animation. The reason for me
suggesting this is because with Images and Animations you can make
the object persist for the entire project (Options tab > Display
for > rest of project).
If you don't need the button to persist then you could just
disable the Pause after option (Options tab) in the Button dialog
and set the On success menu option to Open URL or file.
I guess that even if you did need the button to persist you
could just copy the button and paste this onto all the relevant
slides. That might work as well.
HTH
Regards - Mark

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