Want an Inactive Button Until....

Hi Inga!

You can certainly do this! Easiest way to explain is to show you :) Check out this example.

Thank you so much for the solution, I love it - but there's something not
quite working on my slide. In your story, you made the next button
inactive until the state of all four rectangles was changed to visited.
This required you to create a trigger to change the state of each rectangle
to visited when the user clicks on it. Here is my problem: the hotspots
don't show up in the trigger wizard, so I can't change their state to
visited when clicked. Is there a better way for me to set this up? I have
four components on the screen. When each one is clicked, it goes to a
layer which has more information.

Thank you for your help!!

Inga
ingahome33@gmail.com

I would add a variable to the layers to do so then. If you would like to share the .story file that you are working on, I'd be happy to take a look. Please note that your signature is included here when you respond via e-mail, but you are welcome to edit if needed.

Throw away the hotspots, and have the users click on the rectangles. If you create a state for the rectangle that is named Visited, the system will automatically change it to visited when the user clicks.

Okey dokey - ta ta hotspots! Thanks, it works great!!
Inga
ingahome33@gmail.com

Someone responded that I should remove the hotspots and use rectangles
instead. I did and it works great! Thank you so much!
Inga

Looks like that was Walt for the win! Thanks for popping in with an  update Inga :)

OK, now I have another one - what's the best way to do this - I have four
icons that I want students to click on. When they click an icon, I want
text and an arrow to appear at the bottom of the screen. When they click
the next icon, the text and arrow are replaced with another, and so on for
all four icons. I also want the next button to be inactive until they've
clicked all four icons.

Thanks for your continued help!!

Inga
ingahome33@gmail.com

Hi Inga! Would you be able to share what you are working on so that we can better assist?

Here's the slide.

Inga

Hi Inga! I do not see an attachment to your reply. Not only does your signature populate with e-mail reply, but your attachments do not make it to the forums. 

Be sure to pop in and utilize the Add Attachment option in the reply window.

That's very strange about no attachment. Should be there now?

Sorry - thought I was going through gmail - see that I wasn't.  Please see attached.

here is a solution.  It uses less resources which will allow for quicker download.  Take a look at the states of the buttons. 

Hi Inga! Looks like M has provided a very elegant solution for you. Just let us know what you think :) Hopefully that will work for you.

Thanks M!

I guess the big lesson is that hotspots are not your friend in these kinds of interactions!  Thank you so much for the help, so much simpler.