Help with Hidden States

Hi Cathy

use the states tab for Mag 2 and set it's initial state to hidden.

On the first layer when the user clicks to hide the layer add a trigger to change state of Mag 2 to normal.

See attached sample if that helps

Hi Cathy, you can set a trigger to change Mag2 to Normal when clicking a button on layer 1 and the button will also be the one to close layer1. Just notice that you have state change trigger upper than hide layer trigger, otherwise it will hide layer 1 first and not excute change state.

Thanks so much. I will try this at work tomorrow! Very much appreciated :)

Hi Wendy - (Even though I clearly have a profile picture, I had to choose a picture to post this, hence the new pic)

I attached what I'm trying to do, and can't quite seem to get it to work. I need only one magnifier to show on the first slide. When they click on one second layer and close, they should be able to come back to frist slide and see second magifier, but they don't. Clearly I'm missing something! Thanks for any help.

Hi Joann -Thansk for this help.  I attached what I'm trying to do, and can't quite seem to get it to work. I need only one magnifier to show on the first slide. When they click on one second layer and close, they should be able to come back to frist slide and see second magifier, but they don't. Clearly I'm missing something! Thanks for any help.

Hi Catherine

see your updated file.  I used a T/F variable called visit_layer1 - I have referenced it on the layer so you can see it change and then used that in triggers to control when the mag2 pic changes state.

Sorry, I didn't realise you had your pics on layers I was assuming they were on base layer with my sample above.

Hope this helps - shout out if you need more help.

Hi Catherine, Wndy provides another way by using variables. And I provide a way without variables. You can go either way autually. I saw you put the Mags in a new layer rather in the base slide. We can change state of an object in base slide from a layer. But it dosn't allow us to change state of an object in layers form another layer.

However, even though we can't set a trigger in layer 2 to change state of Mag2 in layer 1. We still could change state of Mag 2 in its layer when clicking on Mag 1. Just make sure the sequence of triggers are correct.

Hi, Catherine -- Delighted to hear you are all set and that Wendy's solution worked! 

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Thank you Christie! ;)