Can I make a button not make a slide continue?

Hi.
I looked for this question, but could not find an answer, so I'm hoping I'm re-posting something already answered. If so, I will accept my verbal chasisement.
Anyway...
I am attemping to create a "click and reveal' type interaction in Captivate 4 using buttons and hiding/unhiding objects. Essentially, when the user clicks button A, it will reveal image A and Caption A . When they click button B, through the magic of multiple actions, image A and Caption A will disappear and image B and Caption B will appear....etc. These buttons are at about 5 or so seconds into the timeline.
Around 28 seconds into the slide timeline, I have a "Back" and "Next" button that I use for user navigation instead of using the navigation buttons on the skin. This will pause the slide until the user clicks one of them to be navigated to the next slide or previous slide.
The problem I am running into is that if the user "lingers" on the slide and clicks back and forth between buttons A, B, C, etc. to re-look at all the objects, clicking on any of those buttons will continue the slide which is paused by the "Back and Next" buttons at the end of the timeline. Try as I might, I just can't make the slide pause and wait until the user actually clicks the "Next" or "Back" buttons when I click buttons A, B, and C over and over to re-look at the images and captions.
So is there any way to tell a button NOT to continue the slide? I want my buttons A, B, and C to do the multiple actions i have assigned them (show and hide objects) but do NOT want them to make the slide continue at the pause implemented by my navigation buttons.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Rob

Hi there
Actually I do believe there is a way to make the behavior what you want. But I'll address your issue for making things known to Adobe first. Adobe has something called the "Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form" that they monitor. So you use that. (Link to that is in my sig line)
As for the button issue, you can accomplish it using Advanced Actions. What you need to do is to manipulate the Playhead to keep it paused. One way is by configuring the variable rdcmndGotoFrame with the value rdinfoCurrentFrame. Sometimes this works to just keep the playhead paused. Other times I've tried to do it with some success by repositioning the playhead farther upstream and allowing it to "float" back to the pause point of the object. And to do this you use the variable rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume and assigning it the frame number earlier in time. Of course, to do this you must first calculate the frame number to position at. I normally did this by inserting a Text Caption configured to present the rdinfoCurrentFrame variable and manipulating the pause points using a Click Box object to arrive at the desired value.
Cheers... Rick
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