Button Sets

May 12, 2014

Doug Hammar
By Doug Hammar

Greetings. I am trying to create a button set on a terms/definitions slide that displays the definition for a term that becomes hidden when any other button is selected. I set the initial state for each text box to hidden and created a trigger to display the text for each button and the text remains on the screen when other buttons are selected. I also created a button set but that didn't seem to do anything. Is there a way to make only the text for the selected button visible without creating a bunch of triggers to hide the text when other buttons are selected?

Thanks for the help!

-Doug

4 Replies
Michael Hinze
almost 10 years ago05/12/14 at 10:21 am (UTC)

Hi Doug, welcome to the community. This may not work for you, but how about simply adding the term definitions to the selected states of your terms? This way,  you don't need to fiddle around with triggers, because the button set does the work of showing/hiding. See attached a quick example.  

Steve Flowers
almost 10 years ago05/12/14 at 10:24 am (UTC)

Hey Doug - 

A few ways to make this work. You could add the definition to each button. But this makes updates a little painful. See the attached file. I would use the method in slide 1 -- using variables -- or slide 3 -- using layers. If you need layout / graphics, I'd elect for layers. If it's just a text change without formatting, the variable method is the simplest way to go about it.

Doug Hammar
almost 10 years ago05/12/14 at 10:58 am (UTC)

Michael Hinze said:

Hi Doug, welcome to the community. This may not work for you, but how about simply adding the term definitions to the selected states of your terms? This way,  you don't need to fiddle around with triggers, because the button set does the work of showing/hiding. See attached a quick example.  



Thanks Michael - this is a good solution; enables me to maintain full control over the text attributes as well.

Doug Hammar
almost 10 years ago05/12/14 at 11:01 am (UTC)

Steve Flowers said:

Hey Doug - 

A few ways to make this work. You could add the definition to each button. But this makes updates a little painful. See the attached file. I would use the method in slide 1 -- using variables -- or slide 3 -- using layers. If you need layout / graphics, I'd elect for layers. If it's just a text change without formatting, the variable method is the simplest way to go about it.



Hey Steve - you're absolutely right about the layers. This slide has some graphic elements so the use of variables, while a viable method for standard text, has some limitations. Thanks for the help!

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