Button states

Try using 11 different layers one for each button that when you click it shows the layer you want to show and hides all others.

Thanks, but wouldn't the same thing apply? A trigger to show a layer, and 11 other triggers to hide all others?

no set the properties of the layer to hide all other layers. Or you could set it to hide when you move the mouse off the button

Ok, thanks for your help.

We really need a trigger for "when user clicks anything else".

Hi Rose,

Could you instead put your text bubble into the selected state, and set your buttons up so they're all part of a button set? Or would this not work for the rest of your design?

If you create the layer it defaults to hide all other layers. go in at the layer level and turn off the things on the base level that you don't want to see leave the buttons active. When you click each button it hides the previous layer and shows only the laver connected to that button. One trigger and some adjustment on the time line. I have attached a sample of what I am talking about.

Here it is using oval captions and not just text boxes. Hope this helps

Thanks for all your suggestions and help. I ended up making the button a hover, which solved the problem, but this is not the first time I've had this problem. I'll definitely take a look at these suggestions!

Rebecca, I'm not sure what you mean, but I did do the first part of your suggestion. Not sure about the second part, but I'll take a look.

Kevin, thanks so much for doing those. I think I can work with those suggestions. :)

Hi Rose

Maybee this can help you?

In this tutorials they walrking whit button states - Good luck :-)

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-button-sets.aspx

Hi Rose

Hire is one more tutorials that maybe can help you. Where you can make your own states

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-and-editing-states.aspx

Hi All,

Bo, tx for linking Rose to some tutorials.

I'm attaching a quick and "plain vanilla" example with only 3 buttons and assuming (oot-oh) that you're referring to regular buttons, not the check boxes or radio buttons. In that case, the first thing you need to do is add the selected state to your buttons.

1. Select your button
2. Click the States tab
3. Click Edit States
4. Click New state icon
5. From the drop-down in the Add window, click Selected
6. Click the Add button
7. Click Done Editing States

Now,

1. Double-click the Selected state to make it active
2. Use the menu to insert your caption wherever you want it (it will be inserted only on the selected state of that button)
3. Click Done Editing States

Do the same for your other buttons

Now

1. Select all the buttons and right-click in the selected area
2. From the shortcut menu, highlight Button set, and either click Button Set 1 to make it active, or create a new button set

This sets things up so that only 1 button can be selected at a time.

Please shout out with any questions.

This is great - thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions! This has been a problem for me on several of my course pages. These responses will help a lot.