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Trigger off of the Middle Mouse Button/Wheel
Has anyone used Storyline to trigger an action off of a middle mouse button click or use of the mouse wheel? This may seem trivial, but the software that we train on uses the middle mouse button/wheel to perform several key actions. I've been trying to figure out if there was a way to indirectly trigger off of middle mouse-button, but nothing has come to mind yet. Any thoughts from the caped crusaders out there?
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Hello I just opened a post on the same topic. sorry but when I see that this request is frequent and has been for years. I'm very worried it's so complicated to add a middle click ???
Yes, it seems this could be a fast feature addition and even if it is not many software applications use the middle button, so we must be able to mimic that for training.
Dear all
Any progress on this feature? I'm as well very interested in this possibility. To create accurate software simulation, it is crucial to have the same items available as the user in the original software.
In our software some interactions are done as well with the middle mouse click. Please add this possibility to the trigger wizard to the "Mouse Events".
Highly appreciated and many thanks in advance.
Best wishes, FabianWith javascript you can add events for this.
Do check here.
Hi Math,
Many thanks for your cool example with the crane. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea of javascript.
My use case is the following:
Show layer "XYZ", when the user middle clicks on "Hotspot 1"
Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Many thanks and best wishes,Fäbu
This basically does the trick.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/da37b552-d8b6-45f9-a151-e412dcd53a8b/review
You need an element or hotspot to click... in this case the yellow container...
And a variable 'isXYZopen' that gets set to 1 when the user clicks with the middle mouse.
If the var changes the layer will open. The clicked variable is not needed, but to make the 'cursor' show i added it. Ofcourse the var gets set to 0 when you close the SlideLayer XYZ.
Kind regards and good luck,
MathHi Math,
Many thanks, you are awesome.
My learning: To "select" an object of the storyline product, it is required to use the "alt text" which can be defined via: right click on the object - Accessibility - Alternate Text.
The name of the object used within the timeline is purely used by storyline. :-)
Many thanks for this lesson, Math :-)
Best wishes, FäbuSmall correction... To act on any element in your Storyline using Javascript you first need to be able to select it. I use the 'accessibility names' as selectors. Its easy, you can create groups of elements as they act as classLists...and more benefits. It is only needed when using Javascript, and there are more options. You can use jQuery as selector and more...but it is at the moment the most versatile method of selecting elements in Storyline...
Regards,
Math
Hi, any news on the middle click feature ?
I am really interested in this for work.
I'll try using the javascript workarround for now but i am no expert in that field and I would really appreciate a simpler solutionThanks for the update
Hello Sébastien,
We don't have anything new to share regarding this feature request, but we'll be sure to drop a message here when we receive any updates! For your reference, here's a quick look at how we manage feature requests.
Hello,
OK now its been 13 years. How did this happen ?
You are doing monthly updates roughly and this issue has still not been fixed ?Your feature requests management is clearly lacking. You need to work on that.
I doesn't feel like a big deal to make this happen yet nothingIt really makes me wonder how users are considered
I would chime in here to add the feature to the roadmap...
Yeah I really wonder how this feature has not yet been implemented. It seems so easy to implement. Makes me wonder if they even listen to users. This request has been sitting there for 12 years ...
