Button widget 'back' bug

Hi,
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.
Once the user has returned to check something or re-read something on the previous slide I would like this to pause until the click the next slide button again.
The end presentation is part of a course and overall there will be a few hundred slides so I am trying to avoid having to add something individually onto each slide - unless there is a quick way to do this?
Thanks,
Mary

Hello,
Not sure if I understand the issue, have been using the button widget on master slides.
A quick way to have a normal button on all slides (or multiple buttons): put them on one slide, and do all the configuration, then copy them, select all the other slides in the filmstrip and paste. They will all have the same functionality and be in the same position.
Another idea: there is also a PerpetualButton widget: put it on the first slide and set its timing for the rest of the project. But of course, you have to like that button or to adapt it in Flash.
Lilybiri

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~edlearner

If you are on Windows you can just create a message in Outlook Express, then save it as a .eml file. This is just a plain text file in MIME format. (You can probably do the same from most simple email client apps... except Outlook).
To load this in to a Javamail object, you will still need a Session (which in-turn means you need an SMTP Server, although the server just has to be a valid IP belonging to a computer which is network accessible). I typically use the com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPMessage for simple SMTPMessage operations. You can load this from you .eml file like this:
FileInputStream fileSource = new FileInputStream(yourEMLFile);
Session session = Session.getInstance(null, null);
SMTPMessage message = new SMTPMessage(session, fileSource);Or if you want to use the javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage class just use this instead. It has the same session/stream constructor

Customising the button widget

Hi
I would like to include the navigation options on all my slides to give the user control of the presentation, from reading other posts, the best way to do this seems to be to include the button widget on the master slide. I have looked at inserting this but is there a way to make this just an image of an arrow rather than a text box?
Thanks

Hello,
The button widget is a static widget. If you have access to a Flash Developer, it could be customized, the source file is available with Captivate. Because it is a static widget you can use it on the master slide, which is not the case for interactive objects (like buttons or click boxes or interactive widgets). And it has the look of a real button, there are different states when hovering over it etc. But it is indeed a Text Button. A more simple solution would be to delete the text and put an image of an arrow on top of the widget, but its color will not change with the state.
I blogged about this widget:
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Lilybiri

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