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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Cutting material from a video
"I use MS MovieMaker. Really, really simple to cut a section, save, and place in SL."
- over 5 years ago11/12/18 at 6:34 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Create a reverse highlight in Storyline 360
"PowerPointLabs has a free add-on to PP that makes it really easy to do this sort of thing. Take a screen shot, put it in PP, draw a recta..."
- over 5 years ago11/09/18 at 4:24 pm (UTC)
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"There is no inherent value to variables, so you will gain nothing by learning about them. On the other hand,when you come to the point in..."
- over 5 years ago11/06/18 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Base Layer not a choice when creating a trigger
"To piggyback on Wendy's answer, hiding all the layers is the only to see the base. I have created a layer with nothing on it, that hides ..."
- over 5 years ago11/01/18 at 2:31 am (UTC)
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"I think all the files and folders need to be public, so the player can find and access them. That being said, I think there is a way to s..."
- over 5 years ago10/17/18 at 3:13 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion sharing a storyline project with a client for review and to make changes
"Publish them.
Go to one of these links (depending on your version) to learn more about the how and where. The information on publishing..."
- over 5 years ago10/16/18 at 5:11 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Drag and Drop - Is there a way to make it so the correct response is a certain number of targets in the dropzone?
"Cassie,
Here is a sample that has 4 drag-enabled objects (rectangles), and three targets (small dark circles). If any two objects are dr..."
- over 5 years ago10/16/18 at 4:53 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion JavaScript Character Limits
"Brian,
Like Jackson said, your problem is not with Articulate, or your LMS, it is with your browser and how it handles "mailto". Nothing..."
- over 5 years ago10/04/18 at 11:34 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Changing states on response buttonsx
"I don't have time right now to look at this, but there is one thing you can check. It would behave exactly the way you describe if quest..."
- over 5 years ago09/13/18 at 7:16 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Can I Stagger the Starting Potitions for Multiple Objects on a "Single" Sqaure/Retangular Motion Path
"You have 2 basic options:
1. Have each electron come out of the battery and travel around the circuit. That allows you to create 1 and d..."
- over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 11:44 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Next Button Issue - Contingent on Multiple Object States
"It is maybe not a well-known, but newly known bug (See Ashley's first Reply) in SL that using "State of XXX is ..." in the "When" portion..."
- over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 9:37 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion How to hide Next button until all content is viewed
"It may be that you have not modified that trigger to include all the layers in the conditions."
- over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 4:35 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline 360: matching drag and drop with multiple matches?
"The attached samples may give you some ideas.
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- over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 4:24 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion How to hide Next button until all content is viewed
"It looks good. All you need is some way to keep track of when all the layers have been viewed. This trigger won't work, because if the b..."
- over 5 years ago09/05/18 at 2:40 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Not as complex as yours, but here's a sample that does what you seem to be describing,
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/arti..."
- over 5 years ago08/28/18 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Hover-to-enlarge state change for 3 separate pictures on one slide problem
"It is not the hover state that is the problem, but you are on the right track. It is the z-axis (what's closest to the viewer) that is c..."
- over 5 years ago08/21/18 at 3:46 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Only show layer on first visit/once
"Create a trigger on the directions layer so that when you click that you are done and are ready to leave it, the "DirectionsVisited" vari..."
- almost 6 years ago08/17/18 at 4:23 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Check Boxes
"Copying and pasting both check boxes and radio boxes used to crash SL2. I got out of the habit of doing it, so I can't say if they have f..."
- almost 6 years ago08/15/18 at 2:45 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Printing the Glossary?
"Janet,
Articulate does not respond to ideas on the basis of how good they are, they respond to ones that a lot of users want. So everybo..."
- almost 6 years ago08/14/18 at 7:16 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Timing the triggers
"Make object visible when audio completes.
Jump when object is clicked."
- almost 6 years ago08/10/18 at 7:59 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Layer object shows in base layer in development mode
"If the layer visibility is locked, objects on that layer will always show:
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- almost 6 years ago08/09/18 at 9:11 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Animation Question
"It's very easy to do in PowerPoint, and then export as a video to use in SL. I would do the shrinking in PPt, then do the movement in SL,..."
- almost 6 years ago08/07/18 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Limiting the amount of drag items in a drop target
"I'd have to see the slide in question before I could agree with that."
- almost 6 years ago08/07/18 at 4:44 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Help: I'm unable to identify the issue with this drag and drop game (file included)
"Lauren,
It is maybe not a well-known, but newly known bug (See Ashley's first Reply) in SL that using "State of XXX is ..." in the "W..."
- almost 6 years ago08/04/18 at 5:50 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Changing State of Text in a Single Text Box
"If you've reinstalled SL and still see the same results, upload the slide here, and let someone take a look at it."
- almost 6 years ago08/03/18 at 3:26 am (UTC)