Next Button not enabled when revisiting a screen

Jan 21, 2016

I may be missing an easy fix, but I am having trouble enabling the Next Button when revisiting a slide. What I would like is once the next button has been activated on a slide, it is active on that slide anytime I revisit it.

The way that things are set up is that you must complete the slide before the next button activates and you can proceed forward. This works great. However if I move forward then go back and revisit a completed slide I have to wait for the slide to complete again.

Right now i have a few triggers in place to activate the Next Button once the slide has completed.

Here they are:

Slide Triggers:

Change State of the next button to NORMAL when the TIMELINE ENDS
Change State of the next button to DISABLED when the TIMELINE STARTS

Player Triggers:

Jump to NEXT SLIDE when user clicks the next button
Jump to PREVIOUS SLIDE when user clicks the next button

What do I need to do to make this happen? Please help.

5 Replies

Christie Pollick

over 8 years ago01/21/16 at 5:04 pm (UTC)

Hi, Steve -- Thanks for reaching out with your question! Have you had a chance to look at this thread on a similar topic? Please let us know if the suggestions offered there will do the trick, or if you still need help, you are welcome to share your file and we will gladly take a closer look! :)

Steve Urena
Author

over 8 years ago01/22/16 at 8:19 pm (UTC)

Thanks Christie,

That worked great. What I figured out though is that I need to make a new variable for each slide. Variables I made was "NextButton" and then the slide name. For example the intro screen was "NextButtonINTRO".

I also made a text box that shows my variable on the stage that reads "%NextButtonINTRO%" to make sure that my variable was functioning properly. Then I assigned my triggers to the text box instead of the variable (this seemed to work smoother for some reason).

The Triggers I used were:

Set NextButtonINTRO equal to TRUE when timeline ends
Change State of the next button to NORMAL when the state of Text Box 1 "%NextButtonINTRO%" is NORMAL If NextButtonINTRO is EQUAL TO, IGNORE CAST TRUE

Once I got this to work I just moved the text box off the stage (still active in the timeline though) so its not visible, and made new variables for each screen and adjusted my triggers accordingly.

One last thing. I tried using the same variable, just "NextButton", on every screen and it worked when I previewed it, but not when I published it. Not really sure why.

Hopefully this helps anyone else in my same predicament. And if anyone figures out a simpler way to make this happen I would love to hear it.

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 8 years ago01/22/16 at 8:24 pm (UTC)

Thanks for popping in with an update Steve. Glad the link was able to assist you and I appreciate you popping in to share your solution with the community. I'm sure this could assist someone in the future.