Thought I was being creative...
Dec 05, 2012
Well, I thought I was being creative by creating a shape off the slide to hold all my "layer triggers." But it doesn't seem to work with conditional triggers. Is this the case? Or am I doing something wrong?
I have a shape called, "Disable Menu," which contains about 30 or so triggers that basically says the same thing. The only difference is that the number changes when it needs to disable a choice within a menu when a user has made their selection.
The basic trigger says:
Change state of x (object in menu) to Disabled (state) when the timeline starts on y (the object name off the slide) on condition that z (name of true false variable) equal to True.
It works when the trigger is attached to layer, but not the object off the slide.
I don't like to have a million triggers attached to the layer because there isn't any quick way of finding a specific trigger (when you have hundreds of them). That's why I thought putting a shape on the outside of the slide and attaching the trigger to that object when its timeline starts was a good idea. Turns out it doesn't work. Does anyone have a better way of doing this?
Thanks in advance,
Jesse.
3 Replies
Hi Jesse
The first thing that comes to mind is that trigger order is breaking the expected functionality. With 30 triggers there's a lot of room for error. I'm interested to see what's going on with your file. Any chance you could post to the forums so we can take a peek?
It should work, I expect it is the trigger order
Good call... Thanks for your replies. You were both right, as usual - it wasn't necessarily the order of the triggers, but the properties on the layer. I needed to keep it on "Automatically decide" not, "resume saved state." Not sure why I had checked that option. But that was the issue.
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