Problem with image states - re-size handles disappear

Jun 28, 2013

This is my first post, so apologies if I refer to anything with odd terms, or if this has already been discussed, however I couldn't find it in the forum so I thought I would share.

Recently, a colleague and I have been altering the states for different items within Storyline in order to produce a more customised feel to our eLearning. However, when altering the states we have discovered what appears to be a bug that removes/hides the 're-size handles' on an object or shape. This only seems to occur if you delete the original image from the ‘Normal’ state. Once you add a new image and click the ‘Done Editing States’ button, you can no longer see the re-size handles around the object. Without these re-size handles showing you can no longer select the item by dragging a selection area over it with the mouse. Or at least if it is selected, you can only tell by looking at the timeline...

We have found a way around this; by selecting the ‘Normal’ state image and simply right-clicking to 'Change picture' – doing it this way means the resize handles are retained but ideally you could do it both ways.

6 Replies

S. Yu

almost 11 years ago06/28/13 at 6:34 am (UTC)

Thanks for this info, Sam!

Phil Mayor
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almost 11 years ago06/28/13 at 6:39 am (UTC)

I have seen it, it feels like a bug, the only thing is that all states are based on normal, if you delete the normal image then the state becomes nothing hence no handles, right click is the way to handle this, shouldn't really ever delete the normal objects

JC Blanchard

4 years ago04/15/20 at 1:29 pm (UTC)

I am having the same problem, no resizing handles. But what do you do when both images show up overlapping? I have a cartoon character with transparency. I need the character to flip horizontally when the user clicks a button. He's looking to the left on the normal image and looking to the right on the selected state. When on selected states, both images are visible.

Robert Lengacher

4 years ago04/15/20 at 1:51 pm (UTC)

A work around is to make the object a shape (I usually create a rectangle with 99% transparency) and then paste your desired images into the states for that shape.