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Storyline: Hand cursor during shape hover - Can I stop this?
This question was actually asked before on this thread:
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/23419/236620.aspx
But was not answered because the question was unclear....although it made sense to me!
Here's the scenario: I've set up a freeform pick many quiz like Jeanette posted here:
Jeanette set this up using shapes with states rather than hotspots! I know that with a hotspot, you can turn off "Show hand cursor on hover", but I'm wondering if you can replicate this with a shape state?
If I right click on my shape, I don't get the hand cursor option, so I was wondering if there was any other work around.
In my pick many quiz scenario I don't want the user to just hover around the image to find the hand cursors and pick those areas. I'd like to turn off the hand cursor if possible.
I hope this makes sense!
I really appreciate any feedback!!
~Amber 
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Hi Amber,
I don't believe it's possible to modify the cursor with states. However, you could certainly place a hotspot over the shapes. Though I realize that may defeat some of the purpose of creating this using states, it would enable you to continue using states with triggers, and you'd be able to modify the cursor.
Just a thought :)
Curious to see if anyone else has a suggestion for this as well.
Best of luck with the project,
Christine
Thanks so very much for the information Christine. I really appreciate it! I sort of thought that would be the case.
I was trying to build a quiz out of the interaction, so what I have found is, the hotspots won't work because I'd like to have two or more hotspots be correct, and I think it's only possible to have one hotspot as a correct answer.
What I may end up doing is inserting some "fake" hover areas so the user won't know which are right or wrong.
I'll keep contemplating this, but again, in the meantime, I appreciate your response!!!
~Amber
I would add a hotspot without a trigger behind all of your shapes this way the whole slide will have a mouse cursor change
That's brilliant and simple! Worked great for me.
Even when "show hand cursor on hover" is toggled on, the hand is not showing when I mouse over the hotspot in Preview mode. Any idea why?
Hello!
I am not sure Phil is still subscribed to this discussion, but I'm happy to help. It sounds like "Show Hand Cursor on Hover" is toggled on but not working in Preview mode. Is it working as expected in the published output?
This doesn't work for me. The hotspot does not produce the hand icon if there is no trigger attached to it.
I can replicate this... in fact, I can't seem to get a hand cursor even when I do have a trigger attached to the hotspot. Weird, maybe a bug?
Great idea, Phil - as usual! :)
Ahhh! Brilliant Phil! Great work-around! I put a full screen hotspot without a trigger behind all the shapes, and the cursor changes to the hand cursor for the whole screen without giving away any of the shapes. Perfect!
I really appreciate it!!
And thanks again Christine!!
I love the simple solutions. MY first attempt to remedy this situation would have been MUCH more complicated...
What about a workaround for the reverse? I have many checkboxes tightly together in colums, and the hand cursor can be confusing; states indicate best which checkbox would be selected when the learner clicks. Is there a way to turn *off* the hand cursor for the entire slide?
Wendy, I looked at your sheet and an easy work-around is to change your hover state from the green highlight to no highlight and change the color of the check box to light green (or some other color) so that only the box highlights when the learner hovers over it. This should be a lot clearer than the current green glow around the object.
I can't think of a reverse workaround, as there isn't a way to disable the hand cursor for checkboxes (there is for hotspots) but I wonder if you want to share a copy of your .story file here with the community and then they can take a look at the set up and behavior you're seeing and offer some alternatives?
I found that if I deleted the visited state of the image I wanted to remove the hand cursor from, it seemed to work. No more hand cursor!
Here it is. Please note that this slide was ripped from a much larger module; it's really only the hand cursor issue that I'm concerned about in this thread. I've thought about putting arrows into the hover state, etc. to further specify which square is being selected, but the client feels the hand cursor is confusing. Ideas?!
That's a good point, Richard! Thanks for that easy suggestion.
