Hover state getting stuck

Hi Kim

are you using buttons that have the default inbuilt Hover state? in which case you wouldn't need to use triggers.

Or are you creating your own objects with states? Even then if you apply a hover state you shouldn't need a trigger. Can you upload the .story file?

I inherited the file from a coworker and I'm not as savvy as she was in storyline.  I'm not sure if she used buttons or not.  I didn't explain very well the first time.  The trigger is for when you hover over  one object, I also want the hover state of another object to display.  I'd have to get permission to upload the file and it may have proprietary info in it.

Hi Kim

here is a sample of what I think you are trying to achieve

Let me know if that helps or just confuses the situation ;-)

Yes, that's what I'm trying to do.  However, I have multiple objects (dates running vertically down the left side) and when you hover over them, they as well as different objects on the screen go to hover state.  However, the different objects are getting stuck sometimes on their hover state when the mouse moves off one date and onto another date resulting in multiple objects being in "hover" state at the same time.

In the trigger check if the 'restore on mouse leave' is checked or unchecked.

If is it checked as in my example, the objects should go back to the previous state when the mouse moves away

Yes, the box is checked.  I think I'm going to have to strip all the triggers and start again :(

It appears to have  a ghost haunting it!

Hi Kim

could it be the proximity of object placement - are they too close together so that one trigger doesn't have a chance to restore before the other is selected ...just a thought.

Good luck and if you need to upload it confidentially Articulate support can look at the file for you

Thank you so much!  I'm going to try stripping the triggers and building it again myself.  Sometimes inheriting projects can be confusing.  I'm hoping if I build it logically, I can eliminate the problem.  Thanks for your time!

Kim

I had a similar problem and just found a solution. If anything, maybe this post will help designers in the future.

I had an interaction where learners hovered over an object and a feedback box appeared. I wanted it to disappear when they left the object, but for some reason it would stay. The "restore on mouse leave" toggle was selected.

My solution was to create a shape that covered the entire screen. I set it to 99% opacity and positioned it on the timeline below my objects. Then I created a trigger to set the feedback box to normal when the mouse hovers over that background shape.

The objects are above the background shape, so when learners hover over them they still get the feedback. But as soon as the learner moves off of the object, they're hovering on the background shape and thus the feedback box is turned off.

Hope this helps someone out there!

Thanks so much for popping in to share :)