"turning off" states?
Nov 17, 2013
Hi,
I placed a picture in storyline on which I allow the user to click. I defined a "Hover" state so that the picture changes when the users hovers over it. When the user clicks on the picture he's transferred to a different slide where he answers a queztion. After the question is answered he returnes back to the first slide, and the pictures has now changed into a new picture - in correspondance with him answering correctly or incorrectly (for this I defined 2 more different states for the picture).
My problem is that when the user returnes to the first slide and the picture has changed, he can still change it by hovering and can still click it and go to the second slide again. So, how do I prevent that?
Thanks,
Yair.
6 Replies
I am sure there's probably a better way to do this, but why not have the picture change state to hidden, and have a NEW picture come over the top that does not have any states other than turning from Hidden to Normal.
That way he/she can click as much as they want when they return to the slide and it will not do anything.
Thanks, good idea, but... I'm afraid I over simplified the case, as I have not one but 12 pictures like that...
So I hope to find more an elegant solution.
I could use the DISABLED state had I only one option for the second state - but I have two options (correct / incorrect answer). So I guess what I'm looking for is some way of creating two "DISABLED" states...
Any ideas?
Hi Yair,
The only other way I could think of doing this (besides Bruce's suggestion) would be to track some T/F variables - so that on the first pass, if the variable is equal to True, the user is able to click on the button and proceed to the next slide where upon answering the question the value of the variable changes to false. This way when they revisit the image wouldn't be able to be clicked on (disabled)...but you'd still have to set this up for all 12 images, so I don't think there is an "easy" solution.
Thanks Ashley, but this leaves the problem of changing the picture; I need to change the image to one of two possibilities (in correlation with the user answering correctly or incorrectly) AND not allowing the user to click on that image. Again, it's like I need TWO "DISABLED" states which I can design each one as a different image...
Hi Yair,
Ah yes, two images. You won't be able to use the built in disable state twice, with different images - but you could try with another state that maybe includes a transparent shape over the image so that the user won't be able to click on it or hover over it?
Tried it... But it behaves as if the transparent shape isn't there. Weird... :-/
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