I'm trying to use states to make some text appear as the user drags the slider.
To do this, I deleted the text from the "normal" state and created a "visible" state that shows the text. Then I added triggers attaching the states to the slider variable.
I also have images and shapes doing the same thing. I can get the images and shapes to appear, but I can't get the text to work. I'm not sure if SL is glitching or if I'm doing something wrong and I'd love some help! I've attached the slide in question below. Thank you in advance for your help!
I'm not sure what caused the bigger part of the problem, but here's what I found. The normal state text wasn't deleted, it was just moved down to below the slide. That may have caused the visible state to show below the slide when invoked.
Hiding Normal may cause all the built-in actions to fail.
I moved the text for Normal back to its home location, deleted the Visible state, and set the original state to Hidden. I changed the triggers to change the state to Normal, and everything seems to work.
There is still a problem. When I attempt to select one of the text boxes, it seems selected, but there are no resizing handles. So I think there is still something wrong with the text boxes that may cause problems at a later date. If they were mine, I'd delete them and recreate them. Only use the Normal state, and use Hidden when you don't want them seen.
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I'm not sure what caused the bigger part of the problem, but here's what I found. The normal state text wasn't deleted, it was just moved down to below the slide. That may have caused the visible state to show below the slide when invoked.
Hiding Normal may cause all the built-in actions to fail.
I moved the text for Normal back to its home location, deleted the Visible state, and set the original state to Hidden. I changed the triggers to change the state to Normal, and everything seems to work.
There is still a problem. When I attempt to select one of the text boxes, it seems selected, but there are no resizing handles. So I think there is still something wrong with the text boxes that may cause problems at a later date. If they were mine, I'd delete them and recreate them. Only use the Normal state, and use Hidden when you don't want them seen.