States vs. Timeline
Dec 11, 2015
By
Sarah Dahl
I'm struggling with this slide, and am hoping for some help. I initially had it so that my "Popup"s all came up only on mouse hovers of my "Small"s. But some were overlapping, so I tried to move all my "Popup"s to the top of my timeline. This didn't work, because then they showed when they shouldn't.
I also though I could do it with a State, as you can see on 1Popup, but it's not working. And I can't move the order in the triggers. Please help!!!
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Not sure what you want to do, but see if this gives you some ideas. The ovals show up at the appropriate times, and you can hover over them.
That is awesome, thank you so much! And now I learned about the "marker" function in the timeline, very, very helpful.
OK, but I'm not seeing the triggers--how did you do that?:)
Nice work Walt, thanks for popping in to assist.
Sarah - check out that timeline and those cue points! Looks like that's how he did it.
The small icons are buttons with the large image as the hover state. Clean and simple.
Objects appear according to where their left edge is on the timeline, and disappear according to where their right edge is on the timeline. How close to the top of the timeline they are governs which objects they cover, and which ones cover them. (Top ones cover bottom ones.)
Giving an item a state named hover invokes the built-in actions for the hover state.
I previewed the narration from the timeline to determine the appropriate moments for the appearances and disappearances. Pressing "C" causes a cue point to appear on the timeline.
Thanks again Walt! Now I think I understand. I was trying to stumble toward exactly what you've achieved:).
Glad to help. Good luck with your project. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask. There are a lot of people here with good answers.
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