PLEASE HELP WITH STATES!!!!!

Hi Mike, and welcome to the community.

Sorry you are having trouble understanding how things work, perhaps the attached will help, took about 2 minutes.

May I recommend you re-visit the Tutorials. Like any software, it takes a little time - this simple example merely used a Custom State and a couple of Triggers.

Once again, a warm welcome.

Bruce

You could just you the visited state and no need for a trigger, if you just want a simple colour change

i appreciate the responses and i apologize for my late night rant - but i'd become very frustrated after 2 hours of trying to make this work. please see the attached file and explain to me what's different from what you sent. I still don't see what I'm doing wrong...

thanks again

Hmm...

I cannot see either.

I have just added new text boxes and all states appear to work fine.

Looks like there is something shonky about those text boxes, but I cannot for the life of my spot it, (but then have just returned from a Stag weekend so not firing on al cylinders yet....).

Try deleting them and recreating them - that seems to work absolutely fine when I do it...it does not solve the problem of WHY, but perhaps someone less full of Bourbon and Merlot can assist there.....

Bruce

yes - that's what i've resorted to also. and THANK YOU for at least verifying that I am not a moron, nor insane. unfortunately i'm the type to try and solve the WHY - to the point of obsession unfortunately - hence my 3 hour frustration session last night... could've used some of that bourbon!

Now - how do I make the others on the list change back to their respective colors when a new one is clicked? do I have to create 4 additional triggers for each item?

Hi Mike - 

It appears that there's an issue with bullet lists and visited states when they're animated by first level paragraph.

Bruce is right that if you recreate the text box, apply a grow animation and use your triggers you'll be okay. I'm putting a quick screencast together to show you how to update your file.

Thanks Dave - had not spotted the animation angle....

Bruce

Okay, here's a quick overview showing you how you can work with visited states to remove the need for the extra trigger.

I also show how you can fix your file and why there's something we need to take a closer look at with animation by first level paragraph and states.

David - thanks for the time and effort. Appreciate the personal attention. I think I had first level paragraph animation applied because I originally had that list of 5 items in one text box but wanted more control over the timing - so i separated them into individual text boxes - but obviously failed to change the animation setting back to all at once...

And as for the custom trigger - that was also an attempt to "fix" my problem from last night. I tried every preset you offer - but thought maybe that was the issue, so i made a custom trigger and obviously still had no luck.

I do have a question about "visited" trigger though: will that automatically change back to normal when another item is clicked/triggered? Is there a simple way to do that - Or will i have to set up 4 additional triggers for each of my list items in order to have the others return to their normal states? I went ahead and set up the extra triggers, but it seems like there should be a simpler way to achieve the same outcome...

thanks again... especially considering it's Sunday afternoon!

Hi Mike -

Gotcha re: the custom states.

So, if you're looking to change the state based on the currently selected item, then you'd want to use Storyline's built-in Selected state instead of the Visited state.

Here's a quick tutorial on selected states and "button sets" which are exactly what you want to use: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-button-sets.aspx