Show a layer when a button is hovered over by the mouse not workin

Make sure there is no other object or hotspot in the way. 

Is there a layer open so that the buttons on the base layer are not active?  Perhaps you could set your layer options to allow user to click on base layer objects. 

Can you post the offending slide so we can look at it?

In playing with this some more, I think my question has become: When a layer is being shown, can it contain a button that can be hovered over to show another layer? What's happening is I click on a button on the base layer which triggers the next layer to show which contains the button I want to hover over to show another layer. When I move the cursor, the layer disappears.

I've searced the tutorials and forum and can't find any documentation that specifically says this - but I hope there is some way to do this. I hope that makes sense.  I just rried to attach the example slide and I don't see it displayed so I don't know if that worked.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

KH

Hi Kristin,

I'm interested to know how you're applying this. But anyway, I was curious if it could work. so I just played with it. I got at least the functionality I think you're looking for by:

• Clicked the gear icon for the pop-up layer and inserted a checkmark in the "hide objects on base layer" check box.
• Double-clicked the button trigger on the pop up layer and removed the checkmark from "restore on mouse leave"

Not sure what else you need, so that may not work for your scenario, but it does show the picture on hover!

Oh, I also hid button1 from the base layer on the timeline in the show pic layer.

Thank you to Meryem and to Rebecca.

I tried your suggestions, and with Rebecca's it is definitely showing the (2nd) layer when hovering over the button (which is on the first not the base layer). So that's great. However, I was hoping that I could have 8 different buttons (on the first layer) - each showing a corresponding different layer when hovered over. The problem now is once one button is hovered over and the corresponding layer appears, it is just stuck there. 

How do I make it so that each of eight buttons can be hovered over as many times as a person wants to, with each button showing a corresponding layer which goes away if the person moves the cursor to hover over a different button (which then shows a different correspoinding layer)???

This must be possible - I'm just not very experienced with this program! I really appreciate any suggestions/help! Thank you!

Kristin,

Look at the attached HoverPictures Story.  Does it do what you need?

Here is what I did:  Instead of storing the pictures on layers, I put each one in the Hover state of the button.  

1. Make your 8 buttons and select them all.  Make them a Button Set.
2. Copy one of your images.  I used Control X, so it would not be on the screen anymore.
3. Select the button you want and go to the States tab.  Edit the state of that button.  
4. Select the Hover state, and then paste in your image.
5. Click Done editing states.
6. Go get another picture and edit the hover state of the next button.

Yes - I think so - I've tried it with just one of the buttons so far but I think it's doing what I want! Thank you Meryem!  I have so much to learn! Can you explain to me what exactly making my 8 buttons into a "button set" does and why it is necessary?

I'm going to set up the rest of the buttons now and try it out. Thanks again!

KH

It may not be necessary, depending on what you are going to do with these.  I don't understand the inner workings of Storyline, but I have found that my buttons work better when they are in a button set than when they are not.

To form a set, select all the buttons.  Then right click and choose "Button Set."  You get to name your button set, or just choose the default name.