Is there a possibility to make built-in "Selected" or "Visited" button state unclickable, i.e. disabled?
I already use Normal, Hover, Disabled states, but when there is Selected state used I want to make the button not only visually checked, but also disabled.
If you want it to disable once you click it add a trigger to change state to disabled when the user clicks. then set the disable state to look like the visited state and delete the visited and selected states
I will follow Phil's advice, just wanted to precise one more thing - is it possible to use 2 Disabled states at once?
I mean that I already have one Disabled state, and if I will add one more Disabled state (the one which looks like the visited state) - will programme still recognize that it is also disabled state?
Because I already did it and called the second state 'Disabled2', but it did not work.
You can only have one disabled state, you could use the visited state and a conditional trigger, if you can share an example perhaps one of us could mock you somthing up
Cristina's solution of adding a transparent shape over the button's 'Completed' state should prevent the user from clicking on the button and therefore make it disabled.
When you added the shape, did you set the shape fill to 'No fill'? If you did, then the user will still be able to click 'through' the shape on top so you will need to apply a 100% transparency fill instead.
Thank you very much for your comments! Your help is very much appreciated.
I still was able to disable state:
1. Deleted Selected/Visited state
2. Created separate layer - with transparent shape and check - to cover active (normal) button and disable it when it will be required (i.e., when user will complete quiz).
Unfortunatly, I still was unable to do this on my main layer, because when I added transparent shape over, button still was active. Even when the shape was not transparent. Maybe here is some trick and my omission. But I am glad that despite everything now button works as I wanted
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you can delete the states
Thanks Phil for the reply - you mean that I can use simple buttons with triggers without states?
If you dont want to use the selected state or visited state then delete them
Ok, Phil, thank you very much for your advice!
If you want it to disable once you click it add a trigger to change state to disabled when the user clicks. then set the disable state to look like the visited state and delete the visited and selected states
Hi Jelena! Looks like Phil has you taken care of here, just let us know if you need anything further.
Thanks Phil!
Thank you Leslie for the support.
I will follow Phil's advice, just wanted to precise one more thing - is it possible to use 2 Disabled states at once?
I mean that I already have one Disabled state, and if I will add one more Disabled state (the one which looks like the visited state) - will programme still recognize that it is also disabled state?
Because I already did it and called the second state 'Disabled2', but it did not work.
Thanks
You can only have one disabled state, you could use the visited state and a conditional trigger, if you can share an example perhaps one of us could mock you somthing up
I have Table of Contents where Quiz buton is Disabled until the moment when user will go through Content.
Afterwards Quiz state is Normal or active.
When user will finish it too, Quiz state should be changed to Selected, but at the same time this button should be also not active/disabled.
You could also try putting a transparent shape over the button for the visited state to "disable" it so it cannot be clicked on.
Dear Cristina,
I already tried it and somehow it did not work.
Maybe I did something wrong.
I will try all suggested here variants one more time.
Thank you
Hi Jelena,
Cristina's solution of adding a transparent shape over the button's 'Completed' state should prevent the user from clicking on the button and therefore make it disabled.
When you added the shape, did you set the shape fill to 'No fill'? If you did, then the user will still be able to click 'through' the shape on top so you will need to apply a 100% transparency fill instead.
Jelena, Still looks as if you're being well taken care of here
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your comments! Your help is very much appreciated.
I still was able to disable state:
1. Deleted Selected/Visited state
2. Created separate layer - with transparent shape and check - to cover active (normal) button and disable it when it will be required (i.e., when user will complete quiz).
Unfortunatly, I still was unable to do this on my main layer, because when I added transparent shape over, button still was active. Even when the shape was not transparent. Maybe here is some trick and my omission. But I am glad that despite everything now button works as I wanted
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