Touch
Touch Plugin

Touch

Build interactive touch menus and quizzes without any programming.

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Build interactive content for touch screens without programming: menus with several levels, quizzes and more. Make any image, text or shape a button, or add an invisible button, and choose the slide it jumps to. Reset to the start after a minute without touches. Try our touch quiz.

Video: Touch

Get Started

The steps below build a simple quiz: a start page, two questions, a “correct” slide for each, and a “wrong answer” slide.

Create all the slides first

  • Make every slide you need, in order: for the quiz, a start page, question 1, correct answer 1, question 2, correct answer 2, and a wrong answer slide
  • Name the slides in their settings, so you can link to them by name

Links point to a slide, so it’s easiest to make all the slides before you link them.

Make buttons jump to a slide

  • Click an image, text or shape, or add a Button (an invisible area you put over other objects)
  • Under On-Click, choose Anchor to and the slide’s name, or Jump to a slide number
  • Point wrong answers to the “wrong answer” slide, and right answers to the next step

A button over a shape and its text saves setting the action on both.

Go back to the start when nobody touches the screen

  • Give each slide a duration, for example 1 minute
  • In the slide’s settings, under Advanced, set After this slide play to slide 1

After a minute without touches, it starts over. A small arrow on the slide shows where it goes next. Don’t need a reset? Set the slides to play forever.

Copy our touch quiz

  • Go to Playlists, click From template, open the Touch tab and click Touch Quiz

Options

Click a button to see these.

Option What it does
Alignment Fit, align and lock
On-Click Anchor to a named slide (stays right if you reorder slides), or Jump to a slide number (changes if you reorder)
Positioning Its size and position
Interaction delay In the playlist settings (Advanced): waits before moving on while someone is using the screen

FAQ

My buttons go to the wrong slide after I added slides. Why?

Jump to follows the slide number, which changed. Name the slide in its settings, and use Anchor to instead.

How do I stop it from resetting while someone is filling in a form?

Set Interaction delay in the playlist’s settings (Advanced). Each touch with less than that time left on the slide sets the time back to it. For example, with a 60-second slide and a 20-second delay, a touch in the last 20 seconds gives 20 seconds more. Not supported in web preview or on Android and Fire TV.

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