showing object on slide after another object shown visited

Sep 10, 2013

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a text box to show on a slide only AFTER another object has been visited.

My slide has 3 layers. For client confidentiality reasons I can't show the slide, but here is the order I have my triggers in:

rectangle 1:

show layer 1

when user clicks

change state of rectangle 1 to visited

when user clicks

rectangle 2:

show layer 2

when user clicks

change state of rectangle 2 to visited

when user clicks

then I want text box 1 only to appear on the base layer after the top 2 layers show as visited. 

I've been trying to figure it out for 3 hours now, but somehow think I'm missing something. So the last set of triggers is as follows:

text box 1:

change state of text box 1 to hidden

when the timeline starts

change state of text box 1 to normal

when the state of rectangle 1 AND rectangle 2  are visited

show layer 3

when user clicks

So what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help!

3 Replies
Justin Grenier

Good Morning, Roxy.

When creating a slide with a similar design, I was able to mimic your results.  I then found that rather than changing the state of Text Box 1 to hidden when the timeline starts, simply setting the Initial state of Text Box 1 to hidden seems to resolve the problem.

Attached is a working copy of my .story project file.  Please let us know if you have any other trouble.  Thanks!

Roxy Wrigley

Thanks Justin! I had no idea about setting the initial state. At first it didn't work and I couldn't figure out why.. then on turning off the animation it worked. Is it at all possible to have an animation applied and still have it show afterwards? Not a big deal at this stage, more of a curiosity thing now, just happy that it's working

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