Selected State not staying selected

Hi Debbie

when it disappears is it because you are clicking on something else? Can you share the slide so we can take a look.

I verified that I'm not clicking on anything else, just moving the mouse away from the object. It's still disappearing.

I tried attaching the file, but I don't think you can view it through our firewall. I'll try one more time in the next post.

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Hi Debbie

Hover and Selected are built in states and SL knows automatically what to do when a user hovers and when a user clicks - you don't need any of the triggers you have set and in most cases using these triggers will cause issues - delete them all and re-test. If still not working let me know.

Also you have the normal state of the rectangle set to no fill - change that to a solid fill with 100% transparency as with no fill the user can't hover or click.

Your updated file is attached - hope that helps

Thanks Wendy! You can tell I'm self-taught in Storyline. We are so close to having this work.

Now, when I click on the first item it takes the selected state, but when I click on the second item, the the first item remains selected. Do I need to add a trigger to have the first item return to normal state when another item is selected?

Hi Debbie

HIghlight all the items and right click > button set and select button set 1.  This means when one item is in selected state and another one is selected, the first one will be deselected.

Let me know how that works for you.

It works. Thanks for your help Wendy!

Yay Debbie!

Hi Wendy,

I'm having a similar problem with states of a star object I've created that just has 'Normal' 'Hovered' and a 'Clicked'. Once a star is clicked on with the mouse it changes to my 'Clicked' state and then goes back to 'Normal' straight away.

Any help would be very much appreciated. I've attached the file.

Hi Michelle

try this.  SL has a built in state called Hover - so I duplicated your 'hovered' state and created a Hover state and deleted your custom state.  With this built in hover state you don't need a trigger so I deleted the 'hovered' trigger.

See this peek if this is what you are after.  The star changes to hover when I move the mouse over it and then changes to clicked when the popup displays. I also hid the instruction box and begin button on the psychological layer so they don't show through.

Hope this helps

Updated file attached - I only worked on the psychological object and layer.

That's perfect thank you. I'll duplicate your instructions for the other ones now :)

Glad that worked for you Michelle - all the best with your project :-)

Can you explain why "set and select button set 1" works for deselecting items but when I design the selected button it doesn't work properly unless I use the select button 1 set. This really vexes me not knowing why it works.

Hi Anthony 

not sure I'm following. Do you mean you can't create a new button set and get it to work.

Can you take a peek video of what steps you are taking so I can see the issue.