Need help.. =/ Nothing works

Hi Tony

If you want to get rid of the hand add a hotspot instead and =right click, and uncheck show hand cursor, the hand is there to say something is interactive and is a common UI reference point.  Its sounds like your trigger is incorrect posting the slide would help or a screen shot of the trigger pane.

If you use no fill and no stroke there is no button there so it will not work.

There is no need to use buttons and rework them as all objects can have states and all objects can potentially be buttons.

All layers have their own timeline as this only starts when the timeline is visible.  For objects to immediately be visible they would need to be at the beginning of that layer timeline

 It would help to add in your video slide so we can see what is going on, it sounds a bit strange to me.  

When you are aligning objects in states the is a cross hair to show you 0,0, but you can also right click size and position and align this way.

Videos are inserted at the length they are if you right click edit you can crop and resize the video, sounds like you are trying to change the length of the video in the timeline, which is not really good practice.

Hope this helps

Phil

Thanks Phil,

The hand thing really helps, so I can now have no hand until the end of a section of video, so I've put a hotspot the length of the slide to block it which is great, but now I've realised my button is not clickable if the mouse is already on it when it appears, which of-course it is because it's the whole screen.. I have to move the mouse off the screen and back onto it to activate the hand when I want it clickable, is there a workaround for this?
I considered creating loads of little continue buttons but it just wouldn't be perfect and would probably clog up the code and slow everything down, right?

Also thanks for explaining the Stroke thing to me, I thought that was just colour! I have my buttons working properly now, nice one!

As for my buttons states, it just seems the most convenient way to do it really.. I've got little images of things glowing that I have to line up with the video. Also got that working now with the Stroke thing.

And thanks for explaining about layers, that's an interesting way for them to work indeed.. you could potentially create an entire project in one slide like that I guess.

Regretfully I cannot show you the project as I've signed an NDA, but I can tell you that it's basically a hell of a lot of 3D animation that's had some extensive compositing on top of it to ultimately make something interactive that looks awesome, just a few things lighting up here and there to be clicked with constant pauses for awaiting user input. Whole things over 5 minutes long and will be over 70 slides, it's been an insane amount of work lol, taken me half a year.

Also that position thing does look useful, thank you.

Ah yeah that's what I was saying with the videos.. sucks that there's not even some form of marking at the length of the video so that if they get accidentally resized by a button being resized over the border then atleast you could put them back instead of having to scrap and recreate the entire slide, a bit excessive even for lack of an undo function lol it feels like getting a Game Over screen when playing a Megadrive.

Anyhow, thank you for all your help, I can't believe that every problem I had could be solved so easily, I feel like a right idiot, was almost about to give up and ask the client if they'd switch back to Captivate haha!
You've made a world of difference mate.

Hi Tony

You can make a whole course in 1 slide if you want, during the beta programme we had a bit of a competition to do just that.

With your video could you make a continue button appear when the video ends using the when media completes trigger?

There is undo built into storyline it also a little flaky but you can undo most of the time.

Haha that must have been interesting!
Hmm I might give that a go, though I'm not too bothered just putting a short button at the end as is since that method would mean reselecting the video each time right..? There's a lot of video.
Ah yeah, but it just undoes creating things, not even deleting things apparently.. I'm more used to things like Maya where you can undo every single action performed down to the tiniest insignificant attribute changes and even camera movements, the only thing you cant undo is saving/loading lol, bit of a control freak with software I guess but I love it lol. 

I slide was fun, I ended up with 120 layers and 7500  triggers, then decided splitting would be best

Undo should work how you explain it, it just doesnt at the moment.  Hoping this will be fixed soon.

Hope you can get it working if not post back, I am sure it can work

...which, (it must be mentioned...) was won in an outstanding fashion by Phil until SL gave up under the pressure

Bruce

And Phil earned the title of "The Layer King"--and graciously put up with a lot of our "gentle ribbing."