I've been trying for hours to get the "answer" (2nd layer) to show after the user clicks in the wrong place twice (the first time shows layer "try again"). All I get is the "Try Again" layer, then a resultless click, then the Try Again one again. I've attached 2 slides -- one with a ton of ways to make that Answer layer show up, and one with the original attempt that has only one way to make it show up. What else can I do??! Thanks.
FYI - there is a 100% transparent rectangle on the Try Again layer in the complicated slide. Just in case it's not obvious.
that's a huge file size for 2 slides. Can you create a new file and import the two slides in to reduce the size so folks can download and offer suggestions.
Thanks. I deleted the unused videos, but it's still 40MB. I don't know if there are other hidden files that aren't being used (like audio files). The original file, with several live captures (not screenshots, but screencasts) is less than 3x as big.
One question: if you take a project and make it 50% as big, does it reduce the file size also? This used to be a bigger project screen size. Maybe that's why it's so large. Don't know why else it would be.
if you create a project file and save it with name...projectA > make edits then do a save as instead of just save it seems to bloat the size of the file. Someone I worked with the other day had a file size of 862MB and when we created a new file and imported the slides in it was 7MB - unbelievable difference.
Anyway - looks like you've uploaded the same 119MB file again.
I only worked on the first slide but I changed how it works by not using layers, but putting the try again OOPs text box and the answer Text boxes all on the base layer and added a variable 'attempts' to use in triggers.
Other folk may chime in with a better way to do it.
Thank you!! That is great. I've never used the Try Again thing, as I've never allowed multiple attempts for something, so I didn't know that variable. You are a goddess. One from an awesome civilization with a cool special power and adorable animal companion.
Ok - first thing I see, you are using the same variable attempts for all slides. Variables are global for the project but once triggered if you want to reuse them on one or more slides you'd need to reset them OR have a different variable.
Two choices
create one for each slide OR
add a reset variable trigger at the timeline start of each slide after the first one
Option 1 - you would substitute attempts_q2 on slide 2 and attempts_q3 on slide 3 in the triggers where the variable is used.
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Option 2 - create a trigger (first in the order list) that will reset the variable back to 0 ready to be used on slide 2 and same trigger on slide 3.
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Hi Kristin
that's a huge file size for 2 slides. Can you create a new file and import the two slides in to reduce the size so folks can download and offer suggestions.
Thanks. I deleted the unused videos, but it's still 40MB. I don't know
if there are other hidden files that aren't being used (like audio
files). The original file, with several live captures (not
screenshots, but screencasts) is less than 3x as big.
One question: if you take a project and make it 50% as big, does it
reduce the file size also? This used to be a bigger project screen
size. Maybe that's why it's so large. Don't know why else it would be.
Thanks.
Hi Kristin
if you create a project file and save it with name...projectA > make edits then do a save as instead of just save it seems to bloat the size of the file. Someone I worked with the other day had a file size of 862MB and when we created a new file and imported the slides in it was 7MB - unbelievable difference.
Anyway - looks like you've uploaded the same 119MB file again.
re-uploaded on the last reply. thanks.
Hi Kristin
I only worked on the first slide but I changed how it works by not using layers, but putting the try again OOPs text box and the answer Text boxes all on the base layer and added a variable 'attempts' to use in triggers.
Other folk may chime in with a better way to do it.
Thank you!! That is great. I've never used the Try Again thing, as I've never allowed multiple attempts for something, so I didn't know that variable. You are a goddess. One from an awesome civilization with a cool special power and adorable animal companion.
You've made my day - thank you and glad it will work for you. My adorable animal companion and I are going for coffee ;-)
bah! i got parts to work, but I can't figure out why two slides aren't working properly. i don't see a difference between them and the others.
1st slide - ok
2nd slide - click outside once and nothing happens.
3rd slide - entire slide becomes a hotspot
Ok - first thing I see, you are using the same variable attempts for all slides. Variables are global for the project but once triggered if you want to reuse them on one or more slides you'd need to reset them OR have a different variable.
Two choices
Option 1 - you would substitute attempts_q2 on slide 2 and attempts_q3 on slide 3 in the triggers where the variable is used.
Option 2 - create a trigger (first in the order list) that will reset the variable back to 0 ready to be used on slide 2 and same trigger on slide 3.
Thanks!! I thought you could just advance the same variable each time, as it would begin over again on each slide.
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