Pausing Movie for Click Boxes

Hi everyone -
This is my first time on this forum and I'm fairly new to
Captivate, so please be gentle :)
I am creating a movie that highlights accomplishments for a
department over time. Using the "Click Box" feature, I'm creating
links from the movie to Flash, GIF, PDF files, websites, etc. that
highlight some of these accomplishments. What I would like to do is
stop the movie while the viewer explores some of these links in a
new window, but I cannot figure out how to do this. I've attempted
to do this by clicking the dropdown arrow to the right of the "Open
URL or file:" field in the "Click Box" popup window. In this menu,
I click "New," and uncheck "Continue playing movie."
Alas! This does not work for me. I publish the movie and give
it a test run. When I click on the "Click Box" links in the movie,
my URL or file opens up just fine in a new window, but when I come
back to the movie, it is finished because it was still running
while I was exploring my links.
Am I missing something in "Options" or the "Click Box" tab?
Is it possible to stop the movie while the viewer explores links?
I am using Version 1.0.1188, Build 1188 (Education Version)
of Captivate, and viewing my movie in Mozilla 5.0 on a PC with
Window XP.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris :)

Hi, I have a similar issue with click boxes. I have a few
slides which follow the same pattern: I have some instructional
text which spans the length of the slide with fade in and fade out
effects. I also have a click box positioned over a button image
which the user is required to click to proceed. The click box is
set to appear a few seconds into the slide, before the text starts
to fade out.
The idea is that the instructions fade in, tell the user to
click the button, then the click box appears and pauses the slide,
the user clicks the button and the slide finishes playing, fading
out the text and moving on to the next slide.
The slide does wait for the user to click the button before
proceeding to the next slide, but the slide fails to pause, and the
instructions fade out before the user clicks the button. Just to
prove that the slide has not paused, I placed an image set to
appear after the click box appears, so if the slide had paused when
the click box appeared, the image would not appear until the user
had clicked it. However, the image does appear, the instructions
fade out, the slide plays to the end and only then does it pause.
Both the click box and instructions have their duration set
to "Rest of slide", the instructions starting at 0 seconds, fading
in over one second, starting to fade out at 4 seconds, and ending
at 5 seconds. The click box is set to appear 4 seconds in, just
before the instructions start to fade out. The click box action is
set to "continue".
I managed to solve my problem (kind of) by using an invisible
button instead of a click box, but an invisible button is also
invisible in the editing environment, making it hard to spot.
So is there a bug with click boxes? Or is there something I'm
missing? Should we avoid click boxes altogether and just use
buttons for every clickable element?
Thanks,
Scott

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