Timeline and Button States
Oct 02, 2013
I have a slide with multiple buttons. Standard state = green. Visited state = gray. The buttons appear after 5 seconds of narration. When I come back to the same slide, set for initial state, any gray/visited buttons show up at the beginning and then the green/standard-state buttons show up at the proper 5-second mark. Does anyone know why the visited buttons do not follow their regular timing in the timeline? Does anyone know how I can get the visited buttons to show up at the 5-second mark with the other buttons like they're supposed to?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm guessing it has to do with...
Change state of BUTTON to Visited when timeline starts if VARIABLE is equal to True
But not sure how to fix the problem.
Hi, Keith: could you upload the slide so we can see exactly what you are talking about? If not perhaps a screenshot of your slide and triggers panel would help.--Daniel
Hi Keith,
I agree with Daniel, this one is hard to diagnose without seeing the .story file here. Even if you can offer a stripped down version (without your content if private) that'll help us get a sense for what's happening.
Keith, I think you need to control your buttons by an offstage object, rather than having them be displayed when the timeline starts. See this example here. I updated an old file I had with some audio for the main menu. Then I added an offstage object that starts at 5 sec, which either shows the normal state of a button (aka section has not been completed yet) or its "complete" state. This way, the buttons are consistently displayed at 5 sec into the audio AND shown in their correct states. Hope that's what you wanted
Nice Michael, thanks for sharing!
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