I have created a button to open a layer. I have specified three states for the button: normal, hover and active. The default state is normal. I have created triggers for the button to change its state
to hover when the mouse hovers over it (returning to normal when the mouse leaves it) and
to active when the user clicks the button.
The button state changes to active when I click the button. However, as soon as the mouse leaves the button after it has been clicked, the button reverts to the normal state. How can I make the button stay in the active state until the user does something which invokes another trigger?
Try using the built-in state behavior of Selected. Unfortunately, this will toggle back off if it's not part of a button set. So to make this trick work, I create another object off of the stage and add it to a button group. This way, the object will not deactivate the selected state unless I want it to.
I think I figured it out. I confused "active" for "visited". When I use one of the Storyline buttons and modify the "visited" state, I get the effect I want.
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Hi Ted,
Try using the built-in state behavior of Selected. Unfortunately, this will toggle back off if it's not part of a button set. So to make this trick work, I create another object off of the stage and add it to a button group. This way, the object will not deactivate the selected state unless I want it to.
I think I figured it out. I confused "active" for "visited". When I use one of the Storyline buttons and modify the "visited" state, I get the effect I want.
Great! One potential downside with visited, you can't "unset" visited like you can selected.
Thanks!
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