Captivate 6 playbar lock

Hi
I have a project that I would like the next/forward button inactive until the slide has finished. There is a widget out there that hides the next button until slide has finished, this is exactly what I need except that it does not work with Captivate 6. Can anyone help me with how to make this happen or even direct me to a widget that will make this possible?
Thanks

Hi,
You'll never be sure that the user will not sleep before the slide, but that is just my cynical personality...
Either you wait for the widget, or you create your own navigation buttons instead of using a playbar, or if you can cope with having only a custom Next button besides the playbar, you can follow these steps:
Edit the playbar settings and uncheck the 'Forward' option so that the Next button disappears from the playbar; beware the user can still scrub the progress bar if he wants to 'cheat', so you'd better disable that one as well.
Go to the first slide, open the Shapes option in the left toolbar (on top), choose the Forward button in the Button category; this shape is already formatted as a button, check the propoerties panel, Action accordion, BUT you have to check other settings in the Properties panel; you can change colors as you want, even switch to another shape (right-click menu).
Check the Options accordion: you can add captions if you want, and eventually show the Hand cursor, disable the Click sound to your wishes
Most immportant to check is the TIMING accordion: now I want to know if all your slides have different durations? If the durations are similar, check at which time the button should appear (Appear After:) and type that one, then check the Pause After option and put it at a short time (0,2sec);
For Display For: choose Rest of project, so that the button will show up on every slide, and be sure to tick 'Place Object on Top' so that it will never be covered up by anything.
You can control this Next button, hide it on Entering the last slide is a possibility (On Enter action for the slide).
You cannot use a Next button on a master slide, because that one cannot be timed and you want it to appear as late as possible on the slide.
If slide durations are very different, the 'Display for rest of project will not work', you'd have to copy the button to each slide and change the timing.
Lilybiri

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