Duel controls from a shape? (SL2)

Here's a sample project for you to look at.

It would be simpler to use a selected state and just add a trigger play on condition selected and pause on condition not selected. This depends on the initial state but will work.

Russell, I didn't know you could do a toggle like that with the true/false. That's sorted it out, cheers.

Phil, Don't know if I was doing it wrong but your solution gave me the same issue as mine.

You can save a lot of trouble and time by naming your states Normal and Selected. That setup  causes the built-in triggers to toggle between the two states without the need for you to write your own triggers.

As Russell's sample shows, you need a third objective player to make this party work. If you try to do it depending on the states, and the triggers change both the states and the action depending on the states, only one direction will work: You click and if it is playing, it stops. Then the next trigger makes it play, if it isn't, which of course, it always is. The explanation is that all triggers are always evaluated. (If you're a programmer, there is no "else".)  You can check this out by noticing that whatever state the rectangle (an media) is, the trigger changes both. Also, if you change the order of the triggers (switch the order of the two change states and the two plays, and you will find that now it pauses, but won't play.

Russell's sample works because he has an un-involved third party (the variable) which is only changed once. Then everything else is changed or not depending on the value of the variable. (He also saved time by using a T/F variable which can be changed from one to the other by the toggle action.

You don't need a variable only a selected state and two triggers.

Here is a demo alll works fine.

File attached demo here

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