Captive 3 - Pausing on question slide?

Hi there,
Hopefully you can help. The problem I have now is that I've
got a series of questions, but there appears no way to 'pause' the
slide on a question - meaning that if the user doesn't answer
within a certain time it just flips to the next question! (or all
the text disappears)
There appears no way that I can add a 'pause' on a question
slide timeline (yet curiously, some of them appear to have exactly
that!).
Now, I don't want to make each slide 10 minutes long (which
is an inelegant option, I guess) I just want the slide to pause
until the user selects an answer (like a few random ones actually
appear to do!).
Any suggestions? Why do some wait until the user provides and
answer, yet others just move onto the next slide if the user
doesn't answer within a certain amount of time?
Any help, as always, gratefully received.

Hello,
When you are looking at the timeline, the bottom layer will
be the slide number. You will see something like "Slide 1 ||
(1.5s)" The || indicates where the slide will pause. You can put
your mouse pointer over it and adjust where and when the slide will
pause.
With regard to question slides, there should be no need to
modify this. In your case, you may have accidentally set the pause
to occur at 0.1 seconds, and that will result in questions skipping
through without pausing.
Good luck
Doug

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