Mimicing background slide dimming
By
Jaime McCall
Morning!
I need to handle a situation where a layer needs to have the ability to have even additional information pop-up on it through the clicking of a link. My solution is to have it jump to a NEW slide that I've mocked up to look like a layer.
With me so far?
This is going to work great - except for an issue I'm having in mimicing the "dimming" of a non selected layer. I'm tossing a shape over the slide in general, filling it with gray, and messing with the transparency. But for the life of me I can't quite match the color of an actual dim.
Anyone got any ideas what the hex value and transparency of a normal dim is?
Thanks ahead of time!
6 Replies
Wouldn't lightboxing the new slide instead of jumping to it do the trick?
I've actually never used the lightbox function - not even sure what it does. Is it just a transition style? I'll play around with it right away!
Thanks for the lightbox suggestion, Michael. But it doesn't /quite/ work. I don't have that much information to give in the "pop-up" so the lightboxing is showing a slide very light on info.
But that's a great tool - I'm happy to know it for future interactions!
If you do want to create a lighbox-style pop-up using layers and triggers, see these tutorials here:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/149065332 and http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=eo6tt2t3rzq
But is there anyway to have a custom lightbox return to a layer of another slide - not the base layer?
Hi Jaime,
1. Make the elements of your slide-to-be-Lightboxed substantially bigger than those in your standard slide layout, including changing the slide background, etc. That may take care of the "light on info" issue.
2. Return to a layer:
This way, when the lightbox disappears, the slide will replay, seeing your (now true) variable and jumping back to the layer
Hope this helps.
Carlos