Text Converted to Image Disappears

Hi, Stan

Thanks for the response and suggestion. I have to animate them to a soundtrack, so can't use a timing cue in case it takes time for the audio to load.

I have not submitted a bug yet. Actually, this is my first post ever. I'll go ahead and do that now.

I was hoping that it was something I was doing wrong! LOL.

Steve

I don't have a solution for you, just chiming in with a "me, too!" I haven't tried converting the text to images, but I have noticed that text that's set to initially hidden flashes briefly on the screen before disappearing.

The only idea I have -- which I haven't tried yet -- is instead of setting the text to initially hidden, try setting it to appear after x seconds if some condition is true, and make sure the condition is false when the slide displays.

Have you submitted a bug about this?

Don't give up on the timing cue just yet. The idea isn't to turn them on after x seconds, it's to use a different way to hide them.

Since you're setting the text to initially hidden, there must be some trigger that shows the text. Leave that in place. Uncheck the "initially hidden" box. Create a variable (maybe called "TextVisible") and set its value to False. Set the text to appear in 5 seconds if your variable is True. Since the variable isn't True, the text won't appear after 5 seconds. It will still appear when your regular trigger occurs. (Don't make the regular trigger conditional on the variable, just let it fire.)

That will work. Whether it stops the text from flashing when the slide displays or not, I can't say because I haven't tried it yet. If it works, it's a hack to work around a bug -- so thanks for submitting that!

Hi Steve,

We'd love to get a copy of your title and figure this out. You can use the "Submit a support ticket" button on the right-side of the page to create a case with us and we'll investigate :)

Allthough this exact scenario i didnot encounter, i do have a few tips that might help solve it.

-Scorm2004 might be the bad-guy. Try it in Scorm1.2 and/or xApi on Scormcloud

-You can use GSAP Tweenmax for animation and timing. Its a great library, and for this kind of animations i use it all the time, in xapi and scorm1.2 then, seldom or never use 2004.

-If all fails you can use an extra step to ensure a pageelement is invisible. Set the x/y position outside the page. So it will be clipped and is invisible for sure. Then the first step in your animation is set the positon of it to the startposition and make it visible, all in 0.0 seconds...

When you decide to use GSAP, Timelinemax will be a great help to get this kind of thing done.

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Regards,

Math

Thank you for the suggestions! Moving the text off the stage temporarily worked as you said, so am using it as a temporary workaround. Also, thanks for the info on GSAP. We're going to look into that route for future builds!

Steve