State with text shows the text in other empty states (which is fine… BUT!)

Hi Tom, Tis is really great! Thanks so much for your help and the very good video. This is what makes Articulate great: a whole pool of helping colleaugues including the staff! A very strong community!

There are a lot of points in your video which are very usefull to me and I really will use them. It's always nice to see somebody else working in Storyline. It brings in a lot of new ideas. Especially the Word doc for translation is very helpfull.

The problem with the module we are making is that the lay-out and behaviour of the slides will change a lot and that there are a lot of complicated triggers on each page. If every language has its own object It means I will have to work with 2 objects every time I change something in the lay-out. And if the objects have triggers attached to them... I will have to deal with 2 sets of almost the same triggers (for each object 1). (Or I have to put the triggers on layers, but that can become quite complicated.)

That's why I like to have single objects with multiple states for the languages. So object 'Dog' with the 2 dogs in the object. The same for the text and the buttons. The setup is a bit more complicated, but developing will be faster (for our specific module with a lot of variation between the slides).

Do you have any opinion about the last part of my original question?

In short: Each object has 2 states for the languages (language 1 and language 2). All the other states (like hover, down and sleected etc.) are empty. The text of the choosen langauage will appear in the 'start' state. And! as it works now it will also appear in all the other states.

Which is good. BUT is this normal and future proof  Storyline behaviour? Or could it be that after a future update the empty states will show as they are: which is empty instead of showing the initial text?

See update attachent file for a working example.