Rollovers not working

I was able to solve it with a couple of additions. Try it now with the EYE icon.

• First I took off the check mark from "restore on mouse leave". I think it was an issue because there is nothing to restore to,,
• I added hot spot shapes that react with a trigger to turn off the layer.

I see what you did. Thanks a lot! It seems that this method requires a few extra steps. I am still concerned about why the rollovers wouldn't work in this file but did in many other files. Any insights?

I am not sure but for one thing to consider is that what you are trying to program isn't actually a "rollover". Traditionally, a rollover is an action that is a result of a "hover" or "mouse over" event. Since what you are trying to do is actually layer changes, it is attempting to use a simpler method (rollover) and lend itself to a more complex event.

Let me ask this: wouldn't it be more elegant to add an "X" button on the layers that will hide them back when the user clicks on it? This will make the programming a lot simpler because you will connect the hide layer to a separate trigger that is more controllable.

Eitan

AHA! Just stumbled across an understanding of the problem. I had set the rollover image on the base layer to be hidden on the rollover layer. Kind of put the whole thing into a parallel universe...

First time I have tried hiding images on the base layer by hiding them... I always used to just place a white box wherever the base layer images peeked through.

Hi Donna,

You can use HOTSPOT instead of a button.

Hi there, Donna!  Thanks for working through your obstacles and letting us all know what worked for you!  That makes sense to me -- what did you do differently with the base layer object that you wanted hidden?  Did you change it's state on the layer to hidden with a trigger?  Leave base layer objects hidden on the slide layer and use Eitan's suggestions successfully?

Thanks again for your contributions!

It's kind of funny how this happened, actually.
I use these kind of image/trigger-rollovers to "show layers" all the time, and I often want to hide some of the objects on the base layer. So, my MO was always to lay down a white rectangle where I didn't want base-layer things to show, underneath everything else on the layer.
Well, I challenged myself to actually do some of the Articulate Storyline Tutorials, and I learned that if you don't want base-layer items to show you can just click the little eyeball (on the pop-up layer) to hide them. The problem ended up being when the image/trigger was something I needed to hide. So I just unclicked the eyeball on that particular image and laid down a white rectangle instead. Easy, and no need for all the extra programming! Hope this helps someone else!

Thanks for that update Donna - and I'm glad that you found the tutorials and worked your way through it. I also wanted to share a link to all of our tutorials here, this would get you all the Storyline versions plus any of the other Articulate tools.