outline hotspot not visible

Jan 04, 2013

Hi all, I am just starting to use Articulate. I have added hotspots and the outline color is white. On each layer/slide it is vissible, however when I preview the slide, it doesn't show. I have tried to bring/send forward and checked the timeline. Any ideas how to make them visible in the preview?

Ettina

12 Replies
Bruce Graham

Hi Ettina, and welcome to the Forums.

Interesting!

I have never thought about colouring a Hotspot, seems counter-intuitive to all the needs I have for Hotspots, which are around "choosing" things without any clues and/or prompting, but you are right.

This may be a Bug - either not displaying correctly, OR allowing you to do something that you should not actually be able to do (choose the colour).

Hope you get an "official" answer to this, (you could submit a Support Case and see what they say?).

Hope to see you around the forums, and once again welcome to the Heroes Community.

Bruce

PS - ...or option 3 - see below

Jeanette Brooks

Hello Ettina, and welcome! By design, a hotspot is completely invisible to the learner - any formatting you apply is really meant just for you, as the course author, to be able to see the hotspot and manipulate it on your slide when authoring. If you'd like learners to be able to see a clickable area, best to use a shape instead (such as a rectangle, oval, or freeform)... that way any formatting you apply will be visible in the published output. Hope that helps!

Ettina van der Aar

Hi Bruce and Jeannette.

Thanks for the warm welcome and the quick replay, wasn't expecting such a quick replay due to time difference.

Jeanette: Thanks for your advice and yes this works perfect, the layout of a shape is even better for the use in text.

Bruce: I agree most of the time it is counter intuitive. I use the shapes to simulate a system or keyboard sometimes with foto's, it dircets the learner to find the hotspotted key.

Mike Adamski

I would find it highly useful to be able to have visual hot spots that not only the ID could see, but also the student. Case in point would be something like this where students would click a hot spot as a part of the brain to which information would appear in the open space on the right. These hotspots were made by simply tracing around the original brain image, just as an example here.

 

So is there really no way to make hot spots visible for students? 

Mike Adamski

Yes, thank you, Daniel! I was thinking about this very approach when I went to sleep last night, so thank you for confirming my hunch. I am fairly new to AS 360.

For what it's worth, the only issue I'm experiencing that I can't seem to solve is a SEVERE lag once I start using the software for longer than say, 30 minutes. This seems to happen most when I'm editing stages--the lag is so severe that I cannot even move an image across the screen without some significant delay.

No other programs are running that would be sucking RAM, and I have 16GB of RAM on my machine. Premiere Pro runs perfectly fine for hours, as does other Adobe software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Not sure why AS 360 is giving me issues, but Google seems to indicate I'm not alone. 

I can post a new thread about this too if need be, but figured I'd share it here too.

Thanks again!

Mike Adamski

Another couple of questions I have relating to this project:

https://www.screencast.com/t/7Iol0CPv34Q

In the video above, you can see my next two adjustments I'm trying to make:

1) I'd like the white outline to disappear when I click on another part of the brain. As it is now, I have to unclick each part for this to go away.

2) I'd to have the text area on the right go blank when NO part of the brain is selected.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Mike,

No need to start a new discussion, but I would like to have our Support Team take a look at your setup and determine what's slowing you down. If you can reach out to them at that link they'll walk you through some next steps! 

I'll leave you in Daniel's hands for the additional design ideas! 

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