Extending an animated slide's length

We have several lessons with some animated slides (full
motion captures
of scrolling application windows).
The client decided that the scrolling is too fast and wanted
it slowed
down. Unfortunately, simply extending the animation on the
timeline
doesn't seem to have any effect - the animation plays at its
original
rate, then just sticks on the last frame of that animation
for the
duration of the slide.
So our workaround is to export the animation itself to Flash,
adjust the
framerate, publish as a SWF, and import it back into the CP
file. The
result is a little 'jumpy' but seems to work well enough.
Any other solutions to this particular issue? Just wondering
if there
are other approaches. If not, then just adding this for
future reference.
Erik
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nvrmore100 wrote:
I actually have a lot of other buttons that manipulate the displaying of the array in various ways. I thought about creating a much larger array, but this would break all the functionality I have for displaying next, previous, last, items in the array.Then your functionality is incorrect. You should have a variable that keeps track of how many items are stored in the array. This will always allow you to access the last element. And when this variable reaches the size of the array only then do you increase the size of the array.
I agree, I think this is exactly my issue, unfortunately I do not know where to go from here. Is there a way for me to recreate the Item array entirely, rather than having a local array to the addbutton action method?I already showed you how to fix your problem. Delete your line of code and replace it with mine.

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