Editing States
Sep 21, 2012
I have a picture of a control panel, and I want to make it to where if you click a button on the control panel, it will change the image to what the control panel will look like in real life when the button is clicked.
What I did is, there are four states the button can be in: Auto, Skip, Up and Down. So I made the original button have four states: Normal, Skip, Up and Down. I put a hotspot on the image and told it to change the state of Image to Skip IF state = Normal, then added another action to the hotspot to change the state to Up IF state = Skip and so on and so forth.
When I previewed the slide, the button was click-able, but nothing changed when I clicked it.
Any suggestions? I'm going to play around with it a bit more, but I'm really hoping I can figure this out 
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8 Replies
Hi Ashley, get rid of the hotspot - you can't change states with hotspots. Instead use a shape and make in transparent.
Add your triggers to the shape.
>_< Thanks!
Alas, it's still not doing anything when I preview the slide. :\
So now I tried getting rid of any shapes or hotspots or anything and just allow it to change the state of it when the image itself is clicked. The problem with this is that it immediately moves to the last state because it reads the variables so quickly. Is there any way to fix this?
can you upload your file? I think you probably need some extra conditions or maybe need to use more than one shape but it is hard for me to tell without seeing how you have set things up.
What I ended up doing was adding four shapes to the object. Then I set up a trigger to hide each shape as it's clicked and change the state of the next shape to normal. This is working, but boy do I have a lot of objects and triggers on this slide now!
Hi Ashley, I am glad you figured it out. I was thinking about suggesting that you use four shapes. There might be a simpler way to do it, but it does the trick.
It does indeed
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