Interactive Pie Chart Help!

I can't view this because I only have SL2, but it sounds like you could accomplish this using slide layers.

1. Put the individual pie chart sections and text you want to appear on individual slide layers and arrange them the way you want.
2. On the base layer have the full chart and draw some hot-spots over the pie chart (or use invisible shapes) to be the buttons that get clicked to reveal each slide layer you created in the previous step.
3. Then use a variable to count up the amount of clicks for slide completion. Once the variable reaches the number you want, show the next button.

This make sense?

Another option is to use states, and make all the pie pieces a button set. That way only one can be selected at a time.

1st state =Normal

2nd state (Clicked-on state) = "Selected".

3rd state (already viewed) = "Viewed" If you name it viewed, you don't have to write triggers; they are built-in.

See the attached sample. Only one of them has the text box, and it doesn't match color, but you may get the idea.

Currently the way this portion is set up is it is one piece of a three part slide. So the base layer contains a left side bar with three sections. When the learner clicks on the button for the pie chart a layer is revealed with the chart all in gray. Each piece they click on then changes the state to the colored version of that piece of the pie and a matching colored text box.

What you suggested totally makes sense just doesn't mesh with how I have it built because I don't want to lose the menu/progress feature for that section of content.

I tried states, but ended up using variables because there was no way for me to have the text boxes go away after the learner clicked on another section and then reappear if they went back to revisit one of the pie slices.

Screen shots might help me come up with other ideas that may help more. Since I can't see the file.

So on the last attachment, you'll see what it looks like when two pieces of the pie chart are selected.

Currently, the way it is set up, the learner would have to click the first piece of pie (a second time) in order to turn that piece into its visited state and hide the text object that goes with it.

What I would like to happen is when they click on another piece of the pie, that first piece is automatically sent to its visited state and the text object is hidden. 

I also want to keep the ability for the learner to revisit each piece of the pie (and corresponding text box) at any time.

Is this what you want the slices to do?

The red text isn't red, and the blue slice doesn't have text yet, but is this the idea?

Bingo! Nailed it right on the head. 

Oh, good.

The attached story here is the one I used to make the movie, and has samples of the states and triggers to make it work.

Good Luck.

I looked at that one earlier, but it only had the pie pieces and didn't have the triggers, could you check that out?

Thank you!

My mistake.

If you use a button set and states named "Visited" and "Selected", they have all the triggers built-in. You don't need to create any.

Ahh! That makes more sense now! I never thought of doing it that way. 

Thanks for your help!

Hi Lisa,

In case this helps, these are all the definitions of the built in states and how they'll behave. 

Thanks Ashley. I have used states, and understand how they work, just never thought about that as an option for what I wanted to do. But it was really helpful to get some outside perspective - especially because I knew there was a way to do it, just didn't know how to get there.

Thanks!

Totally understandable Lisa - just wanted to make sure you had those in case you weren't sure of the built in options!