Interactive navigation

The built-in Visited state is set up only to show if an object has been clicked, so your rectangles do not show that layers have been visited. (One way to test when states change is to change the Visited state to something that is very obviously different than the Normal.) So if you want to have the timeline or the next button show a state, you need to use a variable to indicate that the state has been visited. (By the way, if you are creating a rectangular button that looks like the built-in NEXT button, you can use the built-in button, because you can write any trigger you want, and attach it or them to the built-in button.)

In my personal opinion, using both the timeline, and user-initiated navigation can lead to some very confusing situations. For example, in your sample, if the user clicks a rectangle and visite that layer, then clicks NEXT, the NEXT triggers cycle through the layers in order without regard to layers that the user may have already visited. If the user clicks "Are we helping?", the clicks NEXT, they are shown layer1 again, which gives the illusion that nothing happened when they clicked. I would choose either automatic advance, or user controlled advance.

In the attached sample, I have set up Scene 2 to operate entirely under user control, yet to advance to the correct layer whether the user clicks the button, or NEXT.

Many thanks Walt for you help, I agree with you about using the timeline makes thing confusing, so I'm looking to move away from that

Hi Walt

In your example, I find when I click on the next button the slide just advances to the next slide

Sorry, I forgot to mention that Scene 1 is the original, Scene 2 is the one with the changes.

It is also set up so that a user must stay on each layer a min of 3 seconds before NEXT will advance them.

Hi, David -- I see that Walt has stopped in to assist you here, so please feel free to let us know if you are all set or if you still need additional suggestions. If so, I might also suggest that you add your post over here in our Building Better Courses forum, as well. :)

Hi Christie

I would appreciate additional help as the navigation I'm working on gets more complicated later in the course. I will also post in the Building better courses as you suggest.

Many thanks. D

Sounds great, David, and I see that you have gone ahead on post over in BBC, as recommended. I just wanted to stop back in and link the two posts for anyone who may be following along here. :)