Presentation advancing without click

[daveperso]

This article shows how you can make an animation stop but you would need to split the animation over several slides as Justin indicated.

Creating On-Click Triggers in Articulate Presenter

[lfilla]

Thanks, Dave. That helps a lot!

[Sussex7]

I am new to Presenter and find this lack of functionality incredible. Many of our Flash projects build up several key messages, each accompanied by narration, on the same screen, usually with images too. Having to split these up over multiple slides is ludicrous.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by Sussex7

I am new to Presenter and find this lack of functionality incredible. Many of our Flash projects build up several key messages, each accompanied by narration, on the same screen, usually with images too. Having to split these up over multiple slides is ludicrous.

See:
Action button and trigger suppport - Articulate Presenter ‘09 Knowledge Base

Presenter uses mouse click animations to synchronize your animations.

[Sussex7]

Thanks Justin - I found those examples yesterday but they are still using multiple slides to get round the lack of support for a PowerPoint 'object action'.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by Sussex7

Thanks Justin - I found those examples yesterday but they are still using multiple slides to get round the lack of support for a PowerPoint 'object action'.

They are using multiple slides. You can actually do more if you use multiple slides and to copy and paste a slide a few times to create an effect is not really that time consuming in my opinion. With multiple slides you can add Flash content, web objects, etc... You have the opportunity to do something more creative than have somebody click a bullet point that makes somebody start speaking. Sometimes you need to work within the limitations of software. That's not necessarily a bad thing. When PowerPoint 2007 first launched with all its bells and whistles, I saw my fair share of horrible presentations that used all those new 2007 features like SmartArt to horrible effect. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should and just because you can't do something the way you envision it doesn't mean that there isn't a perfectly good alternative. Here's an article from Tom Kuhlman about this very thing:
Get Creative and Build Better E-Learning Courses The Rapid eLearning Blog

I play guitar. I think I'm a pretty good songwriter. I don't know every scale or chord in the world. It doesn't matter. I work within my own limitations. Sometimes they bring about the best music.

We do listen to our community and your suggestion is a good one. I would consider submitting a feature request if this is something you would really like to see in Presenter:
Articulate Support - Request a Feature

I can't guarantee that we would implement a feature request but that's the best way to have your voice heard.

[Sussex7]

Justin, thanks for your thoughtful reply. I get the point: cook with the utensils you have.

I was concerned at generating a load of additional slides and the impact this could have on the program size, for example if I copy and paste a slide with images on it a few times.

Does the runtime program then carry multiple copies of the same image or one instance with multiple references to it?

[Justin]

Originally Posted by Sussex7

Justin, thanks for your thoughtful reply. I get the point: cook with the utensils you have.

I was concerned at generating a load of additional slides and the impact this could have on the program size, for example if I copy and paste a slide with images on it a few times.

Does the runtime program then carry multiple copies of the same image or one instance with multiple references to it?

Your slides are converted to SWF files so there would be no reference to your images in your presentation. I wouldn't be too concerned about total size as Presenter will load up to 3 slides at a time while you are viewing a presentation and no more so that should have no impact on playback.