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Layers on Feedback Master Layers not working
Hi Walt. Thank you for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it. It is kind of hard to explain what I am seeing as I have tried to create workarounds to this issue and have probably tied myself up in knots.
Fundamentally, the basic issue is that if I establish a Feedback Master that in turn has a trigger that calls up a secondary layer within that feedback master layer it fails to display the intended information. Either it fails to display anything at all or items that are on the slide layer obscure what is on the feedback layer.
Here's a basic slide. It has a PLAY button that will toggle a variable and a layer on that slide will show/hide, as intended.
Here is the layer with the video. The red TOGGLE OVERLAY button is 'baked' into the Feedback Master of this layer. It has a variable attached to it which will toggle the visibility of an overlay which should fill the entire screen, except for the bottom panel where the button is.
Here is the Feedback Master for this layer. As you can see, the enormous TOGGLE OVERLAY button reaches from top to bottom. The content on the actual layer sits on top of this, which I kind of understand but forces me to start implementing crazy stuff like asking a new layer to open up within this Feedback Master Layer, and this is where the issue lies.
This is what should display onscreen (IMHO anyway) when the TOGGLE OVERLAY buttons is clicked but it doesn't. Nothing happens. It seems like sublayers within Feedback Layers do not work as intended.
In my real-world work I was then forced to bundle this Feedback Layer functionality onto my overall MASTER SLIDE and this worked for a while but seems to have broken again in the recent updates.
Basically, I had tooltips appearing on HOVER, over the audiovisual buttons I created, that would sit in the bottom panel of my slide. If the video was on the actual base layer of my slide and the buttons placed on top of it within the timeline then they would display fine - the bottom of the video would not hide the tooltips. But moving the videos onto a layer allows me to have more nuanced control over timeline actions such as pausing, rewinding, etc. And a single layer to edit, tweak and adjust if needed.
However, for some inexplicable reason, sub-layers (or should that be super-layers?) within Feedback Layers do not seem to behave as they did.
here's a demo of what I'm trying to talk about: