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ZsoltOlah
Super Hero
10 years ago

Changing state directly from JavaScript?

Hello Heroes! Maybe someone out there can help me out! I've been playing with JavaScript and Storyline, you can see an example here: http://bit.ly/1IjNEKs.  But, what I can't figure out is how t...
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MathNotermans-9
Community Member
5 years ago

Diving a bit deeper into the 'states' of Storyline gave me some more insights and i can control a state now by Javascript. At least when its purely an image...if you use Storyline filters on images...that has to be emulated by script then too.

Check out this sample.

States showing/hiding with Javascript

Its an element with 2 states. The top 2 buttons 'Set State1 SL' and 'Set State2 SL' do just that...standard Storyline actions that enable a state.

After some digging into Storyline i noticed that for states the DIV is just toggled. So set to visible or hidden. With Javascript i can trigger visible DIVS, but when one is hidden i cannot. Thus the button getElements. Clicking that button makes both DIVS visible and then the buttons set State JS work...toggling visibility on the 2 states.

Gonna finetune that with Sharon's sample...

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ElainePowell
Community Member
5 years ago

That's awesome. Editing those states could be the answer to so many development problems.

So each state is a toggle? Like NormalState0 & NormalState1 for Normal?

When you can, please share your javascript code for these. I have an idea accessing these states might be a big deal.

I didn't read the whole comment thread. I've got your code.

Thank you so much!