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I'm making a drag and drop and I'm not understanding the states for the drags.

There seems to be a blueish glow added to my drags. I didn't add it and I don't want it, but can't find where it is coming from. How do I change/get rid of it?

Drag over. I would assume this is the state for when i drag over any target/hot spot. But it only seems to happen when I drag over the correct target. Is that how it is supposed to work.

Drop correct. I would assume this is what happens when I drop the drag on a correct target. But it doesn't take effect until I select the next drag — it remains on selected. Is that correct? I have it set to "return item to start point if dropped outside a correct drop target." To me that would mean, "evaluate this when it is dropped." If SL knows that it is dropped correct/incorrect I would want my user to also know at that moment. 

I think the problem with drop correct is because I have a Selected state? Seems to go away if I remove that.

So by getting rid of most of the states (like Selected) I was able to get rid of most of the problems. I'm still left with 2.

One. Sometimes there is a blue glow added to the Drag Over (?) state. Sometimes not. Still can't figure out where that is coming from.

Two. Drag Over seems to be only Drag-over-the-correct-drop-target. Is that correct? Is there a way to fix that.

[update on one] I found that somehow some of my drags had a Drag Over > Drawing Tools Format > Shape Effects > Glow set. I didn't set it. And I don't know why only some of them have it and some don't. So I guess question one becomes, "Why?"

I feel your pain. Something is definitely strange with the Drop and Drag states sometimes. I had a similar problem and discovered that there were 2 drop states in my menu.

Hey there Magda. How you doing? Long time no see.

Each drag has only three states. Normal, Drop correct, and Drag over.

I was just showing it to someone else and the first thing they asked me was why they weren't changing to the color on dragging over the hot spot. Well tomorrow is another day....

Hi everyone,

I have the same doubt and cannot work it out.

I want to have a new state when a draggable object is drop over a target, but not only with the correct.

Any help from the Articulate staff?