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Play Sound and Stop Sound
The Play Sound and Stop Sound actions let you manage the playback of an audio plug-in on a page. You can control
sounds dynamically by creating timeline-triggered Play Sound and Stop Sound actions or let the viewer control
sound playback when they click buttons on the page.
Note: The Play Sound action requires a cross-platform, cross-browser audio plug-in that can be controlled by JavaScript,
such as the LiveAudio plug-in.
Make sure you have an audio plug-in on the page and that it is named in the More tab of the Inspector. Trigger the
action with a user-triggered or timeline-triggered event. Choose Action > Multimedia > Play Sound or Stop Sound.
Inserting a Stop Sound action is good practice before inserting a Play Sound action; it stops any other sound track
that may still be playing when the viewer clicks the Play button. To set up a Play Sound or Stop Sound action, choose
the sound you want to start playing back or the sound you want to stop from the Name pop-up menu.
ShowHide
The Show Hide action lets you show or hide the content of a layer in the page. For example, you can use this action
to create drop-down menus that appear when the viewer clicks on a menu item and hide when the pointer rolls off
the item. Alternatively, you can show or hide objects dynamically by inserting two keyframes in the DHTML
Timeline Editor and adding Show Hide actions to the time track of the layer.
Make sure that your page has a layer with content within it or visible properties before you create the action. If you
want a layer to not appear on the page until it is targeted to show by a ShowHide action, deselect Visible in the Layer
Inspector. Trigger the ShowHide action with a user-triggered or timeline-triggered event. Choose Action >
Multimedia > ShowHide. In the Layer menu, choose a layer. In the Mode menu, choose what should happen to the
layer:
• Hide hides the layer until a Show action that targets it is triggered.
Show displays the layer until a Hide action that targets it is triggered.
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• Toggle shows or hides the layer, depending on its current visibility status.
SlideShow and SlideShowAuto
SlideShow and SlideShowAuto let you manage the playback of a series of images. SlideShow lets viewers cycle
through a series of images by clicking a link. Each click displays the next image in the series. SlideShowAuto displays
a series of images automatically with a specified time interval between images (similar to an animated GIF).
The following rules apply to images used for the SlideShow and SlideShowAuto actions:
They must be in the same folder as the first image placed on the page.
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• They can be either GIF or JPEG images, but you cannot mix GIF and JPEG images in the same slide show.
They must be named in sequence, ending with 01 and the .gif or .jpg extension. For example, the starting GIF
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image could be named poster01.gif, and the others would be named poster02.gif, poster03.gif, and so on. Alterna­
tively, you could name the images simply 01.gif, 02.gif, 03.gif, and so on.
• You cannot have more than one SlideShow action and SlideShowAuto action on the same page.
Place the slide show's first image in the page, and enter a unique alphanumeric name in the More tab of the Image
Inspector. Trigger the SlideShow action with a user-triggered or timeline-triggered event, or trigger the Slide-
ShowAuto action with a user-triggered or timeline-triggered event, or with a browser-triggered event set to OnLoad.
Choose Action > Multimedia > SlideShow or SlideShowAuto. From the Base Image menu, choose the starting image.
For # of Images, enter the total number of images in the slide show.
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