In Storyline I have a text box that contains some text and several URLs. The URLs work fine until I add an animation to the text box (Fade In By First Level Paragraph).
Is this intentional, or is there a setting I have overlooked? Obviously the workaround is to split the text/URLs into several text boxes, but I wondered if it should work as is?
Hmm...that's not good. First, I'd submit a bug report to ensure the team is capturing things related to text boxes. I know there are a few they're working so either this is a new one or is part a larger repair.
Second, your earlier suggestion about creating individual text URLs might be the quick option.
In some cases I like to change the appearance of URLs by adding new States to the text itself such as Hover, Visited, and Down. A bit more work but you have more freedom and control on exactly how you want it to look and behave.
If you don't have time to split them out, you could add Hotspots over the URLs. Yet another idea would be to create a shape with its normal state transparent and a hover state with a soft color - similar to how quiz question hover states behave with the the entire text highlighted with a background color.
Or, if you can make it look right and not weird, add buttons with triggers to launch your URLs. Position them inside your text if you can--or below it. Then group the buttons and text for your animation.
This sounds like the same problem I am having with hyperlinks. I used a hyperlink on some text so that when the user hovered over the text an image would appear. It works great, so long as there's no animation on the text. Otherwise, nada.
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Hey Alan,
What exactly is happening to the animated URL text? Is it losing the URL hyperlink?
The text retains its colour, but appears only as text. Hovering over the text does not highlight it. Clicking on the text does nothing.
Hmm...that's not good. First, I'd submit a bug report to ensure the team is capturing things related to text boxes. I know there are a few they're working so either this is a new one or is part a larger repair.
Second, your earlier suggestion about creating individual text URLs might be the quick option.
In some cases I like to change the appearance of URLs by adding new States to the text itself such as Hover, Visited, and Down. A bit more work but you have more freedom and control on exactly how you want it to look and behave.
If you don't have time to split them out, you could add Hotspots over the URLs. Yet another idea would be to create a shape with its normal state transparent and a hover state with a soft color - similar to how quiz question hover states behave with the the entire text highlighted with a background color.
Good luck!
Or, if you can make it look right and not weird, add buttons with triggers to launch your URLs. Position them inside your text if you can--or below it. Then group the buttons and text for your animation.
Thanks for the suggestions. It's great to be able to discuss these issues.
Can the support team comment as to whether I should report this as a bug?
When it doubt, report the bug.
This sounds like the same problem I am having with hyperlinks. I used a hyperlink on some text so that when the user hovered over the text an image would appear. It works great, so long as there's no animation on the text. Otherwise, nada.
Thanks guys! I'll report it as a bug.
Apparently this is a "known issue" and hopefully will be fixed in an update.
There is a very similar issue with hiding base layer objects when using First Level Paragraph fade in, Hopefully that will be fixed too.
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