trigger for hover

May 30, 2012

does the hover trigger work in preview?

i've got a four layer (including base) slide-- from my base i have dropped in three hover triggers that should lead to each of the 3 layers-- but it doesn't work-- can anyone point me to a tutorial on this or a quick tip?

10 Replies

Gerard Friel

almost 12 years ago05/30/12 at 6:16 pm (UTC)

There is a trigger tutorial here: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/working-with-states-triggers-and-layers.aspx

The hover should work in preview if you have it set to:

Action: Show layer

Layer: LayerName

When: Mouse hovered over

Object: YourObject

Simon Perkins

almost 12 years ago05/31/12 at 12:48 am (UTC)

Yes, hover does work in Preview. To my knowledge all states (including customised) work as they should.

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago05/31/12 at 3:29 am (UTC)

The hover trigger works as the other two suggest. I would check your states, if your hover state is smaller than your normal then the mouse may not actually be on the object when it is in hover state.

Also if the layer covers your object and you have it set to reset on mouse out then the layer will disapear.

By default your mouse should be on the hover object to keep it visible.

If you are testing on an ipad, you can really only have a click or a hover trigger, if you have both only the click will fire

Bud Keegan
Author

almost 12 years ago06/04/12 at 3:37 pm (UTC)

thanks guys-- I'm still not getting it. is there a tutorial for mouse hover? i can get triggers to work for clicks but not hovers... am sure it is sumpin' stupid i'm not/doing...

Rochelle Hahn

almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:13 am (UTC)

I'm having the same problem as Bud. I have the settings as Gerard described, all states are normal, but the hovers don't work (not in preview, and not when published.) Any ideas on what else to check would be appreciated!

Peter Anderson
Staff

almost 12 years ago07/25/12 at 8:29 am (UTC)

Hi Rochelle,

Phil has some good suggestions that are easy oversights, but if you want to post your .story file here, we'd be happy to take a look at it and see if we can figure out what's going on. Thanks!

Stephanie Harnett
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/25/12 at 9:57 am (UTC)

Did you try unchecking the "restore mouse on leave" in the hover trigger"?

Rochelle Hahn

almost 12 years ago07/25/12 at 10:02 am (UTC)

Thanks so much. I ended up starting a new post, and was able to implement the fix from here, http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/15975.aspx It turns out that hover didn't work for me because I had set the base layer not to display, which was undoing the hover.

8 years ago03/22/16 at 7:46 pm (UTC)

Phil,

I realize that you posted this almost 4 years ago, but it was helpful today. I was having issues with my mouse over trigger not working. It was because the layer it was showing on mouse over covered the image.

Thanks!