Feature Request/Discussion - "Only one on screen"
Nov 16, 2020
Hi All,
I've had an idea for either a feature request, or an easier way of doing things.
Say for example I have a slide with 6 buttons on it numbered 1-6, and 6 text boxes also number 1-6. If I click button 1, I want text box 1 to appear and if I click button 2, text box 2 appears etc.
Now the triggers for those become a bit of a mess as it's a case of set a trigger on button 1 to set text 1 to visible, but also separate triggers to set the state of text 2,3,4,5 & 6 to hidden. Repeating this across all of the buttons becomes quite tedious as you all probably know!
Now the request I have is to link all 6 of those text boxes with some kind of "Only one on screen" option, where if say text box 1's state is set to visible, the other 5 would be set to hidden automatically, but if text box 2's state becomes visible it would set text box 1's state to hidden.
I hope all this makes sense, and if anyone has any better ideas of a way to do this i'd be interested to know!
Thanks,
James
2 Replies
Hi James,
If you put the content of each text box in its own layer, leave the visibility option in the layer properties on the default setting of "Hide other slide layers" and then add one trigger to each button to open the appropriate layer when clicked, you should achieve the result you are after.
Ah, that makes perfect sense! Thank you, I'll give that a go.
I did actually think of another way of doing it, which is to use the states on the actual text box itself, and just change that with each button press. That would do the job too!
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