Press enter to close layer
Oct 18, 2019
By
Kevin Hart
Working in Storyline 360. I'd like to give users two options to close a layer. Either hit my "go back" button or just click enter. On one of my slides, with a dozen feedback layers, I set two triggers to hide whatever layer they are on. Either pressing enter or hitting the "go back" button will hide the layer. That works flawlessly.
On another slide, I tried the same set-up and it won't work. I have the triggers set-up identically but for some reason, the only way to close the layers on my other slide is to hit the "go back" button.
I can't for the life of me figure out why the "When the user presses the Enter key" trigger will work on one slide but not the other. Any ideas?
1 Reply
Hi Kevin,
I've been playing with this for a bit, and the trigger will always fail for me if I have not clicked on any object on the layer. I wonder if on the one that works for you, users have interacted with the layer first.
Does the failing one work if you click on a blank area of the layer first?
I tried adding an offstage text entry box on my layers, placed at the bottom of the timeline so it would receive focus when the layer was shown, and that worked. I had to set the layer to reset to initial state on revisiting to make it work repeatedly.
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