Prevent mouse pointer changing to hand

Sorted it!

It was as daft a question as my last one!

Hi John,

How did you fix this?  I am having the same issue and you may think your question is daft, but I can't figure it out.

Hi Michael,

This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain John is still subscribed - but there is a tutorial here on working with hotspots and how to disable the hand appearing when hovered over a hotspot. If you've set it up as a button the hand will still appear to let the user know that they can click there. 

Thanks Ashley; actually I figured it out. I am using the "User clicks outside" trigger with conditions. 

For example - If I want they have to select an object called "Type.png", I set the following triggers

"Show layer Step 5 When the user clicks outside "Lenght.png" If "Type.png"'s state is equal to Hover"  

This way, if they didn't click any single wrong object and the right object state is hover, then they must have clicked the correct object.  And, I don't get the hand pointer because there is no click trigger or selection or visited states. 

Then I set - "Show layer Incorrect When the user clicks outside "Type.png".  So they get the incorrect feedback when they click any wrong areas.

Genius.  

Thanks for coming back to share - I often forget about the clicks outside trigger! 

For future people reading this, if you are targeting HTML5, "Clicks Outside" is the only trigger not supported in HTML5 output. Just thought I would add that in ;)

Hi Robert,

You can see that and other elements that may not work in Storyline 2's HTML5 output here.

This is OLD, but there does not seem to be the same choice anymore re: "...But what if you don’t want the mouse to change to a hand cursor? No problem. Simply right-click the hotspot, and uncheck the option to Show hand cursor on hover."

The selection shown here, which should appear under "Button Set" and "Drag and Drop" is not there.

In my case, I do not want to give away the answer of where the user should click to "pick the correct answer". As currently authored, the software always changes from a cursor to a hand.

Help Ashley! :)

Thank you, Ed

Hi Ed,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are experiencing in your course.

The instructions you are referencing are a bit dated, but if you're using a regular hotspot, you should still see the option a little lower:

I also made a quick recording displaying how a couple of options look to your learner as well. Check it out here.

Leslie many thanks! My thing is a "pick many" freeform. This selection is not available. Pls see attachment -  Thank you - Ed

Ah, gotcha. You're right.

If you need to use the Pick Many Freeform, be sure that you are adding all selections, even the wrong ones so that the user is not given clues to the correct answer.

Take a look at my quick video here.

Ah - cool - I'lll check it out. Thanks. Its not much of a challenge if they see the correct answer from jump street!

Hi Leslie: Thanks for the time to do the little video. Your team is so good! SO, I knew that workflow - in this case, there the target total space is just so small that there may not be room for "wrong answers". But I'll see how I can adjust. So I am clear moving forward, WHAT types of Hot Spot quiz questions do NOT employ the "Show Hand Cursor on Hover" option? Any other types of questions? 

Hey Ed,

I think the actual confusion here may be that we do not consider this question type a hotspot.

You'd want the user to know when interaction is required and which items are able to be moved or clicked on.

I put together a demo file with some sample questions that we have built in so you could take a quick look.

It looks like the option may only exist on the Hotspot ones specifically, which keeps the list shorter.

Hello! Piggybacking on this: I have a video in a slide that doesn't have hotspots or anything interactive. When I publish, the little hand appears instead of the arrow; it doesn't do this on other slides with videos, and I'm not sure where my error is.

Thank you.

Hi Jillian!

It's hard to put a finger on what is causing the error without seeing the file. Would you mind sharing the file in this discussion?

Thanks, Lauren. As you can see from this sample, the hand appears on slide 2, but not slide 1. This happens on other slides with video as well, but I couldn't share them all here.

Thanks for sharing your file with us for a closer look, Jillian!

Your settings look great, so I published the course to Review 360 using Storyline 360, Update 32. I'm having some trouble reproducing any issues in Chrome. Have no fear, though; we'll get to the bottom of this together!

Do you see the hand on the second slide when testing my Review 360 URL? If so, what browser(s) are you using to view the content? Also, what Storyline 360 update are you using? 

Thank you, Katie. Yes, I see the hand in your Review link. I am on Chrome, and my Storyline 360 v 3.32.2031.0

Hi Jillian!

It seems like the layout of the slide is causing this because even clicking the video on Slide 2 pauses the media. This scenario doesn't occur on Slide 1.

I've added a rectangle with 100% transparency on Slide 2. The new shape created a barrier between the video and other objects on the slide, so the hand doesn't appear. I've attached the .story file in this reply. You can view the Review link here. 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Wow, thank you, Lauren! I will be sure to use this fix on any other slides I see this happening. I appreciate your work on this.

Happy to help, Jillian! Glad we got this sorted out!

I know this post is old but you helped me a lot :) the rectangle insertion with 100% transparency did the job! :)Thank you! 

So glad to hear that, Susana. I appreciate you popping in to share and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊