trigger issues with the next button ... bug or no bug? :)
Mar 23, 2015
Dear all,
I need help, because I have no idea what is wrong in my course.
I have applied the same structure to different slides in two different courses and although everything looks pretty much the same on the triggers side, the functionality is different.
I want the user to click every button on the slide and due to that to open every layer of the slide before advancing. That works out with the triggers. Easy! But I want the user to be able to revisit slides in my courses and that is where the trouble starts.
I've put the slides from the two courses in one course and into two different scenes, which you find attached here.
If you preview scene 2, you realise that you need to click through the slide layers until the previous button is active again. If you click "next" and move to the next (empty) slide and then return to the first slide again, the buttons are still "visited" and the next button is still active. That is what I want.
Now, doing the same with scene 1 you'll realize that coming back to the first slide after clicking through all layers first hand, although the buttons of slide 1 are still in the "visited" status, the next button is back to "deactivated" and there is no chance to activate it as a user.
The only difference I can see in the trigger wizzards of the two slides is the "Titel" item displayed in scene 2, though I don't know how I put it there nor what its functionality is.
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Sorry ... I mixed up "previous" and "next" when I first framed my question.
Have a look at the attached file and see if that's what you wanted. I changed the position of the trigger that changes the Next button in scene 1 and that seems to work now.
Thank you Michael! It actually is what I wanted. I feel silly, but I still got no clue what you did. I changed the position of it as well, but that didn't work out. And the triggers still seem to be in the same row but now there is the object "Textfeld" (which is the titel of the slide) above the trigger we are talking about.
Thinking about that I figuered out that if I delete the trigger, click on the titel text field and then set up the trigger to change "next" to normal if ... again, it works out. But I don't see the logic in that. Do you? Maybe my working day has been to long. :D
In your orignal file in scene 2, you had the Change Next Btn trigger attached to the title text box. Since this was the only difference between the two scenes, I replicated that in scene 1 (there, the trigger was attached to a button). Personally, I would have made that trigger a SLIDE trigger (not attach it to any object), but I didn't know if there was a reason for you to set it up like that. Hope that helps.
PS: Viele Grüsse nach Köln!
Well, it works as a trigger connected to the title text box but not as a slide trigger that's not connected to an object. So I think I'll stick to that! :)
Danke Dir!
Glad that Michael was able to assist you Tim :)
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