Setting Default State
Nov 30, 2021
Hi everyone,
I'm just getting started in Articulate and am editing this project and was hoping to set the default state for buttons 2 - 6 to be disabled until the prior question is answered to give students a bit more structure. I've got the triggers in and they work properly so that students can't click on the button but for some reason even though the default state is set to disabled, on the preview screen the buttons are still appearing with the numbers visible instead of invisible as they should be in the disabled state. I feel like this could be more confusing for students.
Could someone let me know if there's something else I need to do so that these buttons display properly until they are triggered to have the numbers be visible? Thanks!
Ryan
2 Replies
Disabled is an overlay of Normal, so Normal shows. The built-in Disabled state shows the Normal state, but doesn't allow clicking. So if you want the numbers to be invisible, you need to set the initial state to Hidden. If you want the boxes to show, you need to make that the Normal state, then when it is time to enable them, set them to a custom state ( don't use a name for the state from the drop down list.)
That makes a lot of sense, thanks a lot Walt!