drop correct states not showing correctly.
Oct 12, 2022
Hello,
I'm trying to create a specific effect using drag and drop effects, but after working on it for a while, it seems I need some advice.
What I'm trying to do is create six skills that drag into one of two categories. To have each skill option appear one at a time, I've created layers. I tried to use the freeform question drag and drop for this, but it won't allow multiple drag items into a single drop box, so I don't think I can use it.
I looked around for a solution, and I'm trying to use the technique of using states as seen in this video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07aWCa6T5pc&t=142s
The problem is that after I created 2 states, drop correct and incorrect, and placed them where I wanted them to appear, when I run the preview, the states don't appear. After jimmying around with it, it seems the states are likely appearing, but just off screen, far from their intended position for some reason that I cannot discern.
Not only this, but by using states, I'm assuming that the drag boxes can't be reorganized or rearranged- there's only one correct and one incorrect drop state, so if 3 skills are supposed to fit in one dropbox, there's no way for the skills to appear in a different order based on what the user does, they will only appear in the order I've created. Is there a workaround for this?
Any assistance would be appreciated!
2 Replies
Here's a tutorial to walk through what you want to do, based on what you wrote above.
Checking your story... first of all... name your layers. Makes it much much easier to work with as you can directly see what layer is doing what.
Then your setup of the states is not gonna work like that. As each element is dragged / dropped onto a target... you really need to keep your different states the same size. Moving a dropped correct or incorrect state out of the boundaries of the normal state as you do...makes after a drop position your dropped state completely out of bounds.
Further more is it unclear to me, what your intention is with the Slide Layers with extra DragDrop questions on it. If you want to hide the options depending on correct or false answers that can be done in the baseLayer itself.
Although not completely fixed... this gives you an idea on how to approach it...in combination with Tom's tutorial.