Problem with hover states causing crash?

Jul 27, 2015

I am trying to simplify the design of some slides where I have vocab definitions that appear when you hover over the word. It was working fine when I had the definitions on separate layers which were triggered to show up when you hover on the word. But I wanted to reduce the layers on my slides, so I cut and pasted the definitions directly into the hover state of each word. I adjusted the triggers accordingly and I thought it should work in theory, but now Storyline is crashing whenever I try to preview the slide (or the scene containing it, or the whole project). I don't know what I might have done wrong.

Attached is a project I made containing only the before and after versions of the slide so you can compare the two. I also included the error report generated by Storyline when it crashed. Is there a way to fix the second slide or am I better off leaving it like the first one?

3 Replies
Wendy Farmer

Hi Aimee

I removed the slide that was working correctly (with layers) and just worked on the funky slide.  It appears that your animations fade in by paragraph were causing an issue.  When I changed them to Fade in (as one object) the slide is fine - now that doesn't mean it gives you the effect you want...but maybe look at how your animating those text boxes with the hover states.

Hope this helps - see attached

 

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