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MartinTuttle-a7
3 years agoCommunity Member
hint button appears despite trigger
Hi,
I am using an arrow to direct users' attention to a transparent shape hotspot that triggers an animation. The arrow drops in at the 1 sec mark and is triggered to occur at start of timeline of...
WaltHamilton
3 years agoSuper Hero
The reason it doesn't work if the learner clicks before the arrow appears at 1 sec is that the state of an object before it appears is hidden. So the hotspot sets the hidden state to hidden and when the timeline reaches 1 sec, it sets the object to Normal state.
For further information, a trigger that sets the state to normal will cause an object to appear, even before its entrance time on the timeline.
It's not that the object is hiding off the slide waiting for its entrance time. It's on the slide waiting to become visible.