How do i control my object effects when i use a button?

Question

I want to use a button so when I click on it a square rises up from the bottom of my slide.  What I'm finding is by the time I click the button to make the square visible its effect has already loaded with the slide so you don't get to see the squares effect working, how do i pause the effect of the square until I have pressed the button?  Should I just make the button jump to a duplicate slide so the effect hasn't loaded if so this will be a pain when I have several buttons on the slide that I want to make objects move when i click them?

Answer 1

Hello,
Nothing to do with button becoming inactive, really, but with the way the Effects are scripted. Will try to answer your question about the buttons however.
I'll try to explain the functionality of a button.  A button typically has a pausing point that is visible on the timeline, right? The portion before the pausing point is the 'active' portion, which will mean that the user can click on the button and this will have results. When you click on a button, the action attached as Success action is triggered, in this example the Text Caption is set to visible. But at the same time the playhead is released and moves beyond the pausing point into the Inactive portion, which means that it cannot be clicked again.
Two possible solutions:
use a rollover caption instead of your click/text captions work flow.
Create a small advanced action BtShow1 and BtShow2 for each of the buttons, again I have screenshots ready but they are not accepted, bummer.... Will try to write the statements:
Show Text_1      for the first button, shows the correct Caption
Hide Text_2       hides the other caption that could have been shown by the other button
Assign rdcmndGotoFrame with rdinfoCurrentFrame            this expression puts back the playhead directly before the pausing point so that button remains active
You can duplicate this action to create Btn2, and you only have to reverse the ID's of the Text Captions
When you attach those actions to the buttons, you can click as many times as you want. You tell that you have searched the forums? Bit strange because I have been explaining this so many times, and blogged about this kind of micro-navigation (frame by frame):
Micro-navigation in Adobe Captivate
Lilybiri
PS: when updating, I can insert one image, will try to add the other one, in a second update perhaps