Complex Drag and drop interaction

Josh,

Here's what I'd do. At least at first blush (I'm guessing there's probably a more elegant means...but I'd have to think on it earlier in the day!).

I'd add a 99% transparent shape (square) over each of your hotspots.  Start the square off in the hidden state. Then trigger it to adjust it's state to normal when an object is dropped on it's corresponding hotspot.  This should keep the hotspot under it from accepting any more drop items.  Probably a fair amount of triggers to add...but it should do the trick!

Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the response. It seems to behave in a peculiar way if I do that. The box does not appear consistently, and even if it does, it does not stop me removing the source object. Could it be due to the fact it is also triggering a new layer (for immediate feedback)?

-Josh

Josh,

You're right.  See, I knew I'd have to think about it longer!  Let me ponder this and ping some folks to see if there's a means of disabling an object without impacting it's drop correct state.

Mike

Josh,

Question....

Could you describe your desired outcome for the learner?   I see that you have a well done layer, but that it's predicated upon the learner getting all of the items into a correct drop state.

Do you want to force the learner to get them all correct before advancing?  Or is there a "fail" outcome that they could encounter?   If you want to force them to get everything correct, then my solution would be to use the object appearing over the drop state to stop further drops (getting this to consistently happen is simply a matter of triggers) and using the disabled state on the draggable  objects.  So when they are dragged into a correct zone, they are then disabled (which prevents further dragging).  You'd then evaluate the disabled states to fire the well done layer.

Mike

Hi Josh Onikul

Check the storyline file attached here. Its the the same file you have attached with some changes.

I have changed a few triggers here and there. Check if this functionality works for you.

Thanks for jumping in to assist Dipti

Hey guys!

Thanks for the replies! I must have overlooked notifications for this thread and only thought to check back today ( was completing other work rather than dwell on this problem).

Mike, you are correct in that the idea is once all the shapes are in the correct place, the end layer comes up to let them continue. I did try your suggestion, but it did not always prevent the interaction (in the majority of cases, it would still allow you to remove the shape, or drop extra ones on it, and it would only sometimes lock them down. I have no idea why.)

Dipti, thanks for the slide. It seems to be very fragile however. I managed to lock out all the shapes in one box, without being able to submit a shape first. Maybe I am asking for too many interactions. I will have a look in more detail at what you have done Dipti, and see if I can further tweak it from there.  Thanks for trying to help me out on this one guys, I really appreciate it!

-Josh

Hi Josh,

Glad you stumbled back upon it to find the examples Mike and Dipti shared with you. After replying, you'll want to click "Subscribe to replies" at the very top of the thread to ensure you get an email notification about new posts, and you'll have to do this each time you reply.