Disabling Buttons on Base Layer

Apr 14, 2015

Hi - I have 3 buttons (1, 2, 3) on my base layer that show a slide layer for each. Each slide layer has audio. I want to disable the Slide Layer 2 button until the audio has completed on Slide Layer 1; and disable the Slide Layer 3 button until the audio has completed on slide layer 2. I'm able to force the learner to select the buttons in order (1,2,3), but can't prevent them from selecting the Slide Layer Button 2 once Button 1 is visited. Is there a way to keep Button 2 disabled until the media on Slide Layer 1 has completed? I would do the same thing for Slide Layer Button 3. Thanks.

5 Replies

Wendy Farmer
Hero

9 years ago04/14/15 at 11:03 pm (UTC)

Hi Jesse

try creating some T/F variables and attach them to each slide layer. Trigger them to turn from False to True when media completes on Layer x. Then on base layer, only allow user to click Button x if variable from Layer x is true.

Hope that makes sense

Emily Ruby

9 years ago04/15/15 at 3:12 pm (UTC)

Hi Jesse!

You could also set the buttons to initial state of "disabled" then add a trigger to the layer to change the state of the button to normal when the Layers timeline ends (if your timeline matches the length of the audio) Also close the layer when it ends, and the button should be available to click.

Glenn Jones

9 years ago04/15/15 at 4:11 pm (UTC)

Agreed :)

almost 3 years ago04/27/21 at 12:29 pm (UTC)

I've only been working with SL for about a month but this is a feature I want to understand better. Could you please provide more detail on how to do this? Thank you

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

almost 3 years ago04/28/21 at 1:56 pm (UTC)

Hi Jo and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you would like to learn more about. We have tutorials specific to layers, triggers, and variables:

Storyline 360: Working with Layers

Storyline 360: Working with Triggers

Storyline 360: Working with Variables

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