Setting up a navigate icon

Icons attached to framework icons are called pages. You can use navigate icons to create links that jump to specific pages in a framework. When Authorware encounters a navigate icon, it goes to the page you set up as a destination. This is called a navigation link.

When you define a navigation link, you define the type of destination, such as going forward or backward a page, jumping to a page, searching for text, or jumping to the first or last page of a framework. You can select destination options in the Property inspector.

You can use navigate icons in two ways:

Automatic navigation places a navigate icon anywhere on the flowline. When Authorware encounters the navigate icon, it automatically executes the link and goes to the destination page.
Navigation controlled by the user attaches one or more navigate icons to an interaction icon to create a navigation framework. The interaction icon can be on the main flowline or in the entry pane of a framework icon. For each navigate icon you attach to an interaction icon, you can set up a navigation control (such as a button) that takes the user to a destination page.

For more information about navigation frameworks, see Frameworks in depth.

You can also use navigation styles to set up hyperlinks by creating hot text. When the user clicks the hot text, Authorware executes the hyperlink and goes to a destination. For more information, see Setting up a navigation link.

Setting up a navigate icon

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