Double-click icon driving me nuts!

Hey John,

This is a common problem in Storyline, and one could probably call it a 'bug'.

Your NEW slide is working as expected - it shouldn't work. Your old slide is working, but it really shouldn't work.

It's really hard to explain, but when you have have a button with more than one state, and any other state but the normal state consists of an object that was pasted into the state, there is a break in 'action' after the first click. Therefore, you can never have a true double click on a button that consists of these kind of states.

When you delete the down state, as Walt suggested, your double click will work, but NOT on the first try and you will likely experience a few misfires.

I will try to explain with pictures, but I have also attached the file for you to look at.

Below there is a button with three states.

The states were create by simply duplicating the normal state and then changing the color of the boxes.

In this situation, double will work perfectly.

Now I have added another button, next to the first one.

In fact I have simply duplicated the first button.

Now, though, I cut the boxes from the hover and down states and then re-pasted them back into the states.

These two buttons look exactly the same, but while the first button will work, the second one will not.

The reason for this is the 'break' in the action chain that happens when one click on a button with pasted states, versus a button with ' native' states.

Here you can see what happens when interacting with the two buttons:

You can slowly click on the two buttons in the attached example, while keeping the mouse still, and see what happens with the mouse.

Now, unfortunately, if you want to use double click actions in Storyline, you will have to make use of native states for your hover and down states - for example a glow, dropshadow, or perhaps transparency.

As for why your original works - it really shouldn't work, but I suspect that with the conversion something forced it to work as expected.

Notice also how in your original, when you try to select the button, you don't get any select marks.

Hope that helps!

Thanks