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Left click to progress?
I want to reveal a series of hidden layers on a slide by left-clicking the mouse or pressing enter, before proceeding to the next slide.
It would help if there were a mouse action that takes no object but which can still act as a trigger, and action like "Reveal next layer".
There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this, but it feels like there should be. So my question is, is there an established way to do this? I can think of a few ways round it but they are all complicated.
Could you add a full screen fully transparent object the background of slide to be the target of that click?
Advancing with ENTER requires user the click the course once before it works. This click can even be on the player part of the course. But if the user clicks outside of the course, then ENTER no longer works until user has clicked once inside again.
So neither is perfect. Mouse click requires you to click on the actual course, and ENTER can stop working with one missclick. But in a way it still works.
Here is a review to the test I made:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/5fa27464-2388-4982-afc5-aed47dc55d23/review
And .story-file is also attached.
Clicking outside the buttons or pressing ENTER will cycle through different colored layers and also advance to the next slide. I cheated a bit and I put a big "Start Course" button on the first page to get that one click in that is needed for the ENTER to work.
It would help if there were a mouse action that takes no object but which can still act as a trigger, and action like "Reveal next layer".
There is, more or less. Well, actually, the only function of the mouse in SL is to trigger an action. What you are looking for is "clicks outside".
Click anywhere, anytime on the attached sample.
