Icons from the Content Library aren't clickable - or barely
May 31, 2017
I made a few slides using icons from the content library. However they suffer a major flaw: you can't click them :(
This icon for instance, the mouse pointer is default right here. The only way you can activate the icon is by clicking the think dark lines. The middle is "see through" and thus inactive.
This is totally unlike shapes where the entire shape area is active.
To get around this I need to either add a hotspot on top of the icon, making life miserable, or fix it by drawing my own and exporting them as PNGs.
What about shape fill? Won't work. If I use shape fill, I do not change the background but the actual color of the icon, leaving me worse off.
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Hi Soren,
The icons actually do function the same as shapes where only the filled portions are active. I like to think of the icons similar to the donut shape in Storyline. When you add a trigger to the donut shape, only the outer donut is clickable. The donut hole isn't clickable as it's empty space.
The benefit is that you can scale this .emf style of art up indefinitely. The downside is that the empty space can't be clicked when you add a trigger. On the other hand, serving up the icons in .png format would mean that the empty space is clickable, but then the icon can no longer be scaled.
I know you mention drawing your own icons and then exporting as .pngs, but you can also save out an inserted Content Library icon as a .png and then reinsert.
I hope this helps!
Mike
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