Changing object state from Hidden to Normal

Is the hidden text box set to be in front when it appears?

Hi Claudine,

All your triggers look correct - but if you're still having difficulty it would be helpful to take a look at the file, even just that one slide. Can you share it here with us? 

I've attached the slide where I had trouble. I tried moving the hidden state object to the top of the timeline stack, but that didn't seem to work. 

thanks-

Claudine

Hi Claudine,

Thanks for sharing the file. It looks like the triggers were not referencing the correct text box? They were referencing a rectangle caption - and when I changed it to the labelled "feedback" one - that worked as expected. I also saw one of the triggers when opening it, had nothing listed for the object and state - so as a reminder you'll also want to confirm you're working on your project files as described here. 

Ah, the dreaded ID10T error. Thanks so much!

No worries Claudine. Happy Friday! ;-)

So I have this same issue.  I have 3 radio buttons and 2 text boxes.  I'll call the text boxes tb1 and tb2. The text boxes are initially hidden.  If you click the top radio button, I want a tb1 to come up, and tb2 to stay hidden.  If you click the middle radio button, I want both text boxes hidden.  If you click the bottom one, I want tb2 to come up and tb1 hidden.

It doesn't work.  In addition to that, the order of the radio buttons is not the same as on the slide.  I have read that that has to do with triggers, but there are only the 2 triggers on each button.  I have changed the order on those, but it makes no difference.  What am I missing?

Small story attached.  Thanks

Hi,

You need to change the States of tb1 and tb2 to hidden instead of using the show/hide.

There is also a setting to change Shuffle to none.

I have attached a short video for you to take a look at.

Another option is to move the text boxes to the selected states of your radio buttons. This way you won't need any additional triggers.

Great answer.  Thanks -- it works.

Actually, it's a great answer if I'm working with text boxes.  It turns out that I realized I don't want text boxes -- I want text entries.  I can't seem to create a trigger on those; in the trigger wizard, the text entries don't show up in the On Object dropdown.  Also, there are text entry triggers there now.  I may or may not want them, but I can't delete them.  I saw another post about changing the state of text entries, and it looked very complicated.  I don't need layers or anything.  I just need it to do exactly what it did for text boxes.  Why should text entries behave any differently than text boxes in this case?

Your other suggestion was to "move the text boxes to the selected states of your radio buttons."  Maybe that would help, but I have no idea what that means.   Thanks

Here is an example project and video for you to take a look at.

Wow -- I never would have thought of doing that.  It kind of works.  I did everything like in the video, and things show up and hide when then should, but I can't enter anything into the text entry boxes.  And when I publish your story, I get the same behavior.

Every now and then, I can set a couple characters of input, but then it stops.  Also, this seems like a bit of a strange solution.  Is there no way to do it like your first suggestion, except with text entries instead of text boxes?  Thanks a lot for all your help so far.

Text entries are data entry objects, so they are expected to have nothing in common with text boxes, which are merely containers. By nature, we need them to behave differently.

That said, this is a visual medium, so nothing has to do what you want it to do; it only has to look like it is doing it. Try the attached sample.

I like it.  Putting the text entry in a rectangle works for me.  Does what I want.  Thanks a lot.