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Buggy Behaviour of Buttons and Checkboxes in a Group
Articulate probably had some ideas when changing Group behaviour, but especially when using buttons, checkboxes and other UX elements in groups the behaviour Articulate had in mind fails. Maybe its even a bug.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d4e2610c-ef4d-4eca-84bc-97bed7c4a9f6/review
Check this sample of grouped and ungrouped UX elements and you will notice the difference immediately when hovering. All grouped elements react on hovering the group. That is for sure not what i want...when i want UX elements grouped i want them to act independently on a hover. If i need a group hover i add a hotspot.
Adding the Storyline so Articulate devs can test and fix this.
And just discovered by following some other posts that this behaviour is in Storyline for about 8 years. This cannot be intended ! Fix this !
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Great solution, Chris.
I would argue this is not a bug and it's just the nature of how groups work and it's actually great when creating a button with more than one object.
As said Articulate employees themselves put it on the bug-list ;-)
I hope it stays on the list forever ... :)
I agree with Nejc at this stage; changing this behaviour will break a lot of peoples work
Articulate actually changes their internal code and HTML almost every update. If you only use 'default' options then indeed i agree it would be nice if updates never break existing projects. But that also limits Articulate to make newer versions completely backwards compatible and thus hang on indefinately to the old way Storyline is setup.
If you depend on Javascript code in your projects, you need to doublecheck projects every update Articulate makes... as the changes in updates are not documented good enough to ensure the way you use Javascript still works after updates. I try to make my code as simple as possible and document it thoroughly, so i can fix things quick when Articulate updates break things. Bonus of using Javascript this way, is that all code and tricks i make...i can reuse in any rapid authoringtool that supports Javascript.The 64 bit version could have been a great start with a modern Storyline. Alas they did clamp tight to the setup of the old version.
