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Dial Problem
Hi everyone, I am facing a very wired problem I have never seen this before. Even my other dials are working, even if I am making it from the scratch, it is not working. Even I take it out, made a n...
first, I have used different kinds of shapes in other slides and they are working. but this one does not. and I have tried by coping those working slide, still didn't work and I tried by creating from scratch, not worked. Even I copied this slide from my actual project, still not working. Those ovals are for my switch shape. I really do not get that. Even after after seeing your solution, I tried that, still not working.
Hi Mohammad,
As Nathanial notes, unlike some other programs (such as PowerPoint), in Storyline a bounded shape like a circle or square blocks mouse click access if it has a dashed border, even if the shape has no fill. When you display an object on a layer (such as your ovals), they overlay the objects on the base layer; in this case, they overlay the dial.
I understand the goal of the ovals; you want to make the border look like tick marks around the dial. In the attached file, I hid all the ovals on the layers. I created an oval beneath the dial on the base layer. I gave the oval a gradient fill to match the color of your dial and I added a dotted border with a weight of 3 to match what you had set for your ovals on the layers. (I only did this to Slide 2...you can use the same approach for your next slide.)
Since the oval on the base layer is beneath the dial but a couple of pixels larger in diameter, it appears as you want it but the dial is now usable from all layers.
