mouse movement impacting state change?
May 19, 2022
Hi there! Pleeeease help me figure this out...
I've created buttons on the base layer that show slide layers when clicked. Once you click the button and are taken to the layer, I have an additional trigger to change the state of the button on the base slide to disabled once the timeline on the slide layer ends. I've noticed that if you click the button on the base layer and then don't move the mouse while the audio on the slide layer plays, the disabling doesn't function as I would expect. The button disables as expected, but as soon as I move the mouse to click a different button and show a new layer, the button that should be disabled activates again. If I were to click the button on the base layer and move the mouse off of the base layer button while the slide layer audio is playing (before the trigger gets triggered), then the disabling trigger works as expected.
I'm banging my head against the wall. What is the issue??
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It sounds like the button has a hover state that is set to return to original state when hover is off. Showing another layer doesn't register as moving off. Only when the button senses the mouse crossing its boundary does it register that hover is off. So hover is on, layer closes, state changes to disabled, mouse moves off, button changes back to previous state.
Is there any way to fix that while keeping the hover that I'm not seeing?
Do you have a trigger for the hover?
What I actually have is a stalk of corn with 4 ears on it and 4 buttons associated with each ear. When you hover over an ear, a trigger makes the corresponding button change to a hover state, signaling that you can click the ear to play the audio for that button. You can also just click the button directly to play the audio. There is no trigger that I set up for the button to make it hover since that is built in automatically.
Can you share the file? I am sure it is that trigger that is doing it but there may be a simple work around, I just cannot visualise it to build a demo file out
Yep! Attached.
I probably should add that the ears of corn don't seem to create a problem. It is just when you access the slides by clicking the buttons directly. I added that because even though we want people to click the ears, I figure some people will just head straight for the button.
I cannot get it to happen with the buttons, if I carry on hovering over the button until the audio ends it still turns to disabled.
Do I need to do something else? I am impressed that you built your corn with states
Lol, apparently the solution is to post publicly about your problem. It is working for me too now. No idea...I'll move on and cross my fingers for it to keep working.
Thanks for being impressed! That was probably more effort than really necessary for this project, but I'm proud of it!
Glad it is fixed. Nice work, good luck with the rest of it.