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Creating Interactive Shows
You can use a combination of Manual Control, Action at End of Slide, and
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Caption Interactivity to make a show that your viewer can interact with.
It’s just a matter of connecting slides and their actions together.
Here’s a suggestion:

You can create an interactive gallery. Make a slide in your show
that displays all of the various images you viewers to see. Set this
slide to Manual Control so that it pauses when they’ve reached
the end of it.
For each image in the gallery, provide a caption that says
something like “Learn More Here”. Set an Action for the caption
that will use Jump to Slide. Create a new slide that has a close-up
of that image and some information about it. Assign the
Destination for Jump to Slide to that slide number.

Finally, add an Action at End of Slide, set to Jump to Slide. Have
this one jump back to the slide you’re using as the “hub” of the
gallery. For each interactive image you want to include, you’ll
make another one of the “close up” slides that you just read
about. It creates an experience that your viewer can actually
interact with rather than just watch.

Live Shows

The ability to make a Live Show is another feature that is unique
Executable output. A Live Show functions the same as a normal show,
with one exception...a Live Show can dynamically pull images from a folder
on your hard drive as the show plays. Perfect for event photography, or a
photo studio. This allows you to change images as the show plays, without
the need to stop and rebuild the show.

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Caption Interactivity is detailed in Chapter 10.