Disable Next Button Until Slide is Completely Viewed

I need the slides to automatically advance, be able to go back, but not go to next unless it has already been viewed for the entire slide. So my thinking was only show a playbar if the user goes back, but then if I just have the back button it can't advance. If I put the next button at the end of the timeline it messes with my animations are no longer in sync.
1. I wish there were an ability to disable the next button in the play bar until the slide is over.
2. I tried making a variable v_view set it to 0
Created an action called PlayBarVisible as a conditional action
where if v_view is equal to 1
then assign cpCmndShowPlayBar with 1
else assign cpCmndShowPlayBar with 0
Set the slide On Enter to Execute Advanced Action to PlayBarVisible
On Exit to v_view to 1
So this works with one slide, the next one automatically has a play bar.
So, how can I get the slide to only allow next if the slide has been viewed, but if it has been viewed then the next is always available? Again, it has to not mess with my animations.

I have a widget on my website that will pause every slide 5 frames before the end-of-slide. I could easily add some code to hide the playbar and keep progress to show the playbar if the slide has been completed.
You could contact me through our website www.tlcmediadesign.com and we could work something out.

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Jay

But you want the Next button to be visible?
What is that ' certain object'? Can you turn it into an interactive object, which is possible with smart shapes? Create a user variable v_click with a default value of 0. To the 'object' that has become interactive, add the standard action 'Assign v_click with 1'. The value of that variable will be checked in the conditional action that is attached to the Next Button.
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despite how I say it or display it in slides, users don't read the instructions before the quiz. This results in them doing the quiz and then asking me why they scored zero when they answered all the questions. So my question is, how can I disable/deactivate/grey-out the Next button until a user clicks Submit after answering the question?
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Hello Rod,
thanks for your answer - I should think more laterally in future.
In my testing, another question has arisen - how do I get the Next button behind the Clear button? It sounds stupid but I can't get the Next button behind the Clear. I go in to the Master Slide, click on Next to highlight it, and then move it either by the mouse or with the arrow button so that it sits under the Clear button. While Next is still highlighted I click on the button in the toolbar 'Send selected objects backward' to be sure, so that I see 'Clear'. When I go back to the Filmstrip, all I see is 'Next' and when I preview the slides all I see is 'Next' - what am I missing here? What have I failed to do? What am I not understanding?
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Next button activates only after user views all definitions?

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Just starting a new Captivate 4 project and the client has a list of terms that are each defined upon rollover. She wants to force the user (against my better judgement) to roll over each before he or she gets the ability to move on. I'm ready to tell her this isn't possible without a lot of extra programming. I'm right, aren't I? Or is there something staring me in the face that easily does this?
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--jessica

Hi Jessica
Definitely more involved, but not impossible. I'm almost out the door, but I have an example linked in one of these posts where I show only making a button available after viewing several rollover slidelets. See if the link below helps with that.
Click here to view that thread
Cheers... Rick
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I am new to Captive and have downloaded the trial version to test out to set up an e-learning module. I have managed to create my first quiz and was able to get it to work fine. I used one of the pre made templates and I inserted a flv video. The user needs to watch the video prior to taking an exam, but the way it is set up the next button is visable and active the entire time of the video. I discovered where you could modify the time before a button appears, but the user can get around that by hitting the pause button and waiting for the elapsed time to expire.
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OK, after searching and googling, I think I may have found the answer. I found a hiding and showing action function, I will see if I can hide the next button until the video ends, at which point it will appear. I'll give it a shot and see if it works.

Hiding Next Button

I know that people have posted answers to this question already, but I'm being really dim and don't understand them. I have a slide with 5 rollover areas on it and I want users to have to roll over these before they move onto the next slide so I want to hide the next button until they've looked at everything. I've had a good look at other threads and other sites on the net that explain this but I've never used Advanced Actions before and have only been using Captivate for about 6 weeks (It's Captivate 5). I've tried to follow the instructions but I can't make it work and to be honest I don't understand what I'm trying to do.
Is anyone able to explain it really, really simply. (Don't assume I know anything, because I probably don't!)

OK, then will try to give you some help.
Create the five text captions, label them something like TC_1, TC_2, TC_3, TC_4, TC_5 and uncheck the visibility in the Properties panel for those captions
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http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/862/cpsid_86254.html
You need an advanced action for each click box, but you can duplicate and edit the first advanced action I'm now describing. I will label it CB_1_ac to make it clear that it will be triggered by CB_1; this action will have 2 decisions: the first, will label it ShowTC is a mimicked standard action, that will show the text caption (or the image, forgot to ask what you will show), disables the present click box and increments the counter; the second, labeled CounterCheck is a real condition that checks the value of the counter and if it reaches 5 will show the Next button; you only use the first page for each decision, not the ELSE part:
This action has to be duplicated 4 times to have the actions CB_2_ac....CB_5_ac. You have to edit only the Actions part of the decision ShowTC to change TC_1 and CB_1 to TC_2.... CB_2 etc
Then attach those actions to their click box, as Success action in the Properties panel. Try it out... I created this sample and it works fine.
Lilybiri

Prev/Next Buttons

I am using some paging code to add a previous and next
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</script>
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Hi,
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i have created 4 Miansteps using FPM GAF.
I want hide or disable NEXT button of only Mainstep4.
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Hello,
I am using Captivate 8.
I would like to make the viewer unable to move forward in the presentation until all of the audio and video have finished. To keep the document from becoming too large, I'm using the playbar at the bottom of the screen for navigational purposes instead of placing "Forward" and "Back" buttons on each slide.
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Let me show you what I'm trying to create here. Sorry I need specific instructions since I'm a newbie to Captivate and not familiar with conditions and advanced actions.
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Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

To disable the horizontal scrollbar and to create a next button to navigate

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Edited by: 888970 on Oct 2, 2011 10:15 PM

Hi Erp,
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