Conditionally Displaying A Hotspot?

Hi James,

Are the Glossary and Print graphics separate objects? If so, you could attach a trigger to each one directly and avoid having to use hotspots. I rarely use hotspots myself. Objects with states offer a lot more flexibility.

I figured it out. Here is what I did in case it helps anyone else. The hotspot has 2 triggers. First, it says to set the state of the menu to Active when clicked (this overrides another trigger that says set the state back to Normal if clicked outside of the dropdown, which the hotspot would be as it's on top. The second trigger on the hotspot says to jump to the desired slide when it's clicked if the dropdown menu's state is Active.

This prevents the hotspot from doing anything unless the dropdown's menu is Active, which it is set that way when the hotspot is clicked. :) No need for a ton of new layers. :)

The only thing that doesn't work right is that the hotspot is there whether the state of the dropdown menu is Normal or Active. I want it to only be clickable when the dropdown menu item's state is Active.

No, they're one image I created in Photoshop. I devised a solution though. It just took multiple sets of logic in the correct order. :)

Thanks for sharing James!

My pleasure. I also found a second way to implement this. I used a standard button. I made its initial state as Disabled - something you can't do with hotspots. When the dropdown menu's state is set to Active by clicking the tool icon, it, in turn, sets the button's state to Normal, which I laid over the words Glossary and Print. I made the button transparent with no border, but attached a trigger to it to go to the desired slide or execute JavaScript to print the screen.

This give the effect of the words being links, but only when the dropdown menu is displayed. :)

Very cool solution, James!

I love reading about creative methods like this. ;)

• I also had a detailed hotspot and interaction solution for a project that come up recently, and I used a similar method, only using graphic fragments (as images) which I turned on and off using variables, as form overlays using the "Hidden" state.

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