loading is clunky from page to page

I have noticed it on some of our courses, but as it appeared to be intermittant I put it down to network speed. Have just tried launching a few courses from our LMS (Kallidus) and it's happening on both AICC and HTML-published ones, although it's much more obvious on the former.I have noticed it on some of our courses, but as it appeared to be intermittant I put it down to network speed. Have just tried launching a few courses from our LMS (Kallidus) and it's happening on both AICC and HTML-published ones, although it's much more obvious on the former.

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Ben

Thank you this fix which still works 3 years later..and saved me some frustration as I pushed for Lectora in my position and published my first course and didn't like the transistions where white flashes. This really looks nice. Thanks.





@benpitman 39488 wrote:

I don't know about load time which is usually a server or bandwidth issue, but yoiu can do something about the flashing. Easiest is to use one of the global transistions on the title properties.


Another is to use the one from another post. I think it only works with IE browsers but I have never tried on others.

Tested using IE 8 but I'm not sure about other browsers. Remove the * in the code which are necessary for it to post here.


From the menu > Add > Object > External HTML

Object Type: Meta tags

Custom HTML:

<*meta http-equiv="Page-Enter"content="revealTrans(Transition=12,Duration=0.01)"*>

You can see more at this web site:

HTML Basix - page transition code generator)

Lectora 11.3.2 has fade in it now which may be applied to whole pages. Not tried it. If it does work, it may be more universal than the above -- work on more browsers.

So, it is now nearly the end of 2014, and this is still an issue.


I am reviewing this software to provide advice to an organisation on which learning package to use.


The complete refresh between one page and the next makes this package essentially unworkable.


I tried to ease the jitter with a left swipe transition, which was the smoothest transition effect I could find, and even that does not work correctly - the transition seems to only cover the page from about 50 pixels from the top of the page.


I cannot seem to find a setting to apply the transition to the whole page? The pages all inherit the screen size, so I cannot understand why the transition does not swipe the whole page.


In any event, even with the transition, there are still weird jerks, and I think it's unacceptable that I had to strip out all the images - backgrounds, avatars etc, to get the best effect.


I am on Windows 8 + Lectora Inspire 11.3. I loaded up Lectora on my Windows 7 machine, and the page transitions had the same lag.


EDIT: There is no issue with the transition/whole page - turns out, the Page Title place holder will not, for some reason, be part of the page when the transition occurs. No matter where I place it, the transition flows around it.


The issue with the refresh between pages remains.

So it turns out that I am now able to get limited images working smoothly - it's all down to timing.


It's pretty tedious, but you need to transition in and out each image and text object on each page to ensure that there is no flicker, and make sure there is a transition delay between object 1 and object 2 if you are layering them - they do not layer intelligently.


I also had to create the background as one jpg, rather than create it from several components on the fly (as the example project had done). Not ideal, but I now have an acceptable product on Windows 8. Took a lot of time to do just a couple of screens though.

Just remember in Lectora 11 you can grab several objects and change common properties like transitions all at one time. You do NOT have to do them separately. Also, set up a template page with the transitions you want and then use that to save more time.

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