First Steps navigation

Von RTuser. | 23 Dezember, 2021 - 14:52

I noticed when going through the First Steps content that navigation is not limited to clicks on the Next and Back buttons, but extends to the entire viewing area. That is, a click anywhere on the left half of the screen activates the Back function and clicking anywhere on the right half of the screen activates the Next button.

Is this normal behavior or is it a bug? Or is there perhaps some setting of the buttons that enables/disables the screen clicks and limits activation strictly to the buttons?
If this is programmed behavior that is unchangeable, would it be possible to cover the displayed area with either a transparent container or transparent graphic and then place the buttons on top of this cover?

RT 6.6.5 and 6.6.6
Windows 8.1

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Re: First Steps navigation

#13193 On 8 Januar, 2022 23:08 jacques villars said,

Hallo RTuser

There are never real buttons in a diashow ; the only ways to browse are playing with certain keys of the keyboard: space bar, arrow keys, ESC to leave the presentation, and some others not that useful, or to click on the page ; the diashow or some parts of it may also be automated with special functions or special settings. For more explanations see my second answer here below.
jacques

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Re: First Steps navigation

#13179 On 23 Dezember, 2021 20:50 Bad_Wolf said,

Hi RTuser,

I tried the first steps too and they behave exactly as you described. This is normal behaviour which you can set up in "Extras" --> "Document Settings..." --> "Slide Show" and then under "Navigation" --> "Mouse Clicks".

What you see is in fact a Ragtime template (.rtt extension). When you close the first steps and then choose "Open Document..." and navigate to the directory where you installed Ragtime and inside that directory open the directory "Resources", then choose the language directory (I suppose "EN" in your case) you will see the document First steps.rtt. Open document "First Steps.rtt" and you can change whatever you wish. Afterwards, when you are finished, you can save it back as a template .rtt or a normal Ragtime document .rtd.

I want to add that you can create your own slideshows with Ragtime. Every page in a layout is considered a "slide" by Ragtime. When you have several pages and you choose inside the menu "Extras" --> "Slide Show" then Ragtime start to show your document as a slide show. When you click on the left or the right side of the slide, Ragtime will go forward or backward.

Hope this helps.

Chris

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Re: First Steps navigation

#13180 On 23 Dezember, 2021 22:32 Thomas Kaegi said,

Hi RTuser

"First Steps with RagTime" is a very sophisticated RagTime document which opens as a slideshow. In slideshow-mode the document is shown fullscreen page by page. Standard setting for this mode is indeed the way you describe: clicking in the left half of the screen returns to the preceding page and clicking on the right half moves one page forward. However, on the 9 exercise pages you can work as instructed. Honestly, I don't quite understand how this is implemented. I strongly advise you not to modify the rtt-document. You could easily ruin its functionality. – An rtt-document is a stationary pad. Every time you double click it a form will be torn of the pad. This document can be modified. You will actually do that by doing the exercises. I don't see another reason to modify it.

Regards, Tom

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Re: First Steps navigation

#13194 On 8 Januar, 2022 23:15 jacques villars said,

Hi RTuser

To the answers of Bad Wolf and Thomas I will add the following:
In the slideshow part of First Steps the "buttons" are not functional, they are fake buttons that only serve to invite the reader to click, they are just simple images; as the reader does not know anything about RagTime yet, one would otherwise have to start explaining to him that one has to click on the left or right half of the page, which would not be very elegant (when I build a slideshow I also use this "subterfuge"). One could also place arrows on the left or right side of the slide, for example.

On the other hand, in the exercises they are real functional buttons that launch quite complex instructions as Thomas explained; if you click on one of these buttons with the ALT key held down, then on the [ i ] symbol in the toolbar, you can see the function of the button… I did not say understand ;-).

Best regards,

jacques

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