Flickering: Hover over Button to Layer

Sep 04, 2020

Hello, 

First timer here.   Of course, I've been scouting this site for years but now I actually have a question. I'll bet it's super simple. 

I've placed a button on a layer and set a trigger to show another layer when the user hover's over the button. 

In the preview, there is flickering of the show layer (when I hover) but it only flickers.  I've adjusted the show layer timeline without luck. 

Thanks in advance for your advice. 

AYS

2 Replies
Dave Cox

Hi Adrienne,

What is happening, is your button is getting caught in a Now-I-See-It, Now-I-Don't situation. When you hover over your button, Storyline shows the layer that you've set it to show. But, and here is the kicker, as soon as that layer becomes visible, the button is now longer visible to the mouse, so storyline hides the layer. Now the button is visible again, so Storyline attempt to show the layer again, and you have a loop.

In your trigger layer, you can uncheck the option that says "Hide layer when the user hovers out" and that will leave the new layer showing.

This should work, but I just found that it doesn't (If you want the layer to hide when the user moves the mouse away from that spot, duplicate your button, and set it to Hide layer this layer when Button loses focus.)

So another method is to surround the button with shapes, and check for the mouse to hover over an area outside of the button.

 

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