I want to take a solid rectangle and have it fill as a function of how many slides have been clicked; this will be overlayed by client text box where letters are transparent. (So, if on slide 6 of 10, then 60% of rectangle will fill under the letters.)I have watched your blogs on using # and % calculations; is there any way to correlate your work with a physical image such as this? The progress bar would have to be a fixed size to accommodate the client text box. I didn’t realize how complex this really is! Thanks for any help. todd.bennethum@gmail.com
I think I understand what you’re attempting to do. Instead of using the LeftToRight effect, you can use the Entrance > StretchFromLeft effect instead. StretchFromLeft allows you to set a shape to its final size and position and then the effect stretches it out from the left without having to do any additional calculations and you can use any width you want.
If I’m wrong about what I’m recommending could you take some screenshots of what you currently have and then post them with an explanation?
I liked the idea of using states, as per your rec, so I created 20 images with bars of varying lengths (ea. 5% from the next). What I want to do is to, using system variables, have Cap calculate what % slide it’s on (say slide 5/20 total or 25%) and match that % with the correct image (say “logo25pct”). So I’d have to set up 20 conditions, one for each img such that If “slidepct” (where slidepct = cpInfoCurrentSlide/cpInfoSlideCount * 100) is greater than zero but less than 5%, show “logo5.img”; if slidepct is 5% up to less than 10%, show “logo10.img”, etc. I’m not as smart with using adv actions as I thought I was nor am I understanding how to use states (don’t know how many videos I’ve watched…sigh). Anything dumbed-down works for me. Thanks to all for your help.
It’s possible you’re over thinking what you have to do. If your users are progressing through the file linearly, and there aren’t any branching paths, then you could just place each of the percentage images on their respective slides after you calculate what slide they would logically be on. This would eliminate the need to use any advanced actions to calculate progress.
You can go the route with using advanced actions to change the state of a smart shape based on a calculation, but you would be looking at creating an advanced action with the same amount of decisions as you have images to change. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a lot of work that, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, may not really be necessary.
This is great! Question: Do you have a way to make this scrubbable to the user?
Sorry, but this method is visual indication only. I’m hoping that at some point in the future we’ll be able to specify the default slider as whole project or per slide.
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