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StevePixel
Inspiring
August 12, 2016
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State of Confusion?

  • August 12, 2016
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Hi Folks, 

I'm not sure if "States" can do this or not,  but I thought I would ask. I want to create 8 different states, each state being triggered by a a button on the same slide. I can achieve this,  but the problem I run into is "unloading" the first State when I activate the second State. The second one comes in on top of the first one.  Is there a way other than Drop and Drag (BTW: nice job on the video Paul),  to hide or unload the first State when I activate the second State?    

Cheers
Steve 

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Please, I asked for State view, because this is still not clear at all. Is this a custom state of the button that you change to?

    I suspect it would be much easier in this case to use Show/Hide instead of states because you can group all the objects (information) to be made visible and the action in that case could be a shared or advanced action like this:

       Hide Gr_Info

       Show Info_one

    If you do this with states, since you probably want to allow clicking in any sequence, you would need an action that will look like this:

    Change State of Bt_one to Info

    Change State of Bt_two to Normal

    Change State of Bt_three to Normal

    ....... etc for all buttons except the one that has been clicked

    It could be solved more easily with the CpExtra widget by InfoSemantics (using the @syntax) but that widget is not free (more than worth its cost), not included with Captivate.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 12, 2016

    This is not the normal behavior at all, if you change a state the former state will be replaced by the new state. How did you create the states, and what is the action triggered by that button? Maybe post a screenshot of the State view, and of the action?

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    StevePixelAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 12, 2016

    Hi Lilybiri, 

    Thanks for the speedy response! I should have been more specific. I have 8 different buttons with different single States attached to each button. What I want to happen is click one- the information appears beside it, click another- different information appears in the same space(while the first button information disappears). Does that clarify my issues better? 

    Cheers
    Steve 

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    August 12, 2016

    Please, I asked for State view, because this is still not clear at all. Is this a custom state of the button that you change to?

    I suspect it would be much easier in this case to use Show/Hide instead of states because you can group all the objects (information) to be made visible and the action in that case could be a shared or advanced action like this:

       Hide Gr_Info

       Show Info_one

    If you do this with states, since you probably want to allow clicking in any sequence, you would need an action that will look like this:

    Change State of Bt_one to Info

    Change State of Bt_two to Normal

    Change State of Bt_three to Normal

    ....... etc for all buttons except the one that has been clicked

    It could be solved more easily with the CpExtra widget by InfoSemantics (using the @syntax) but that widget is not free (more than worth its cost), not included with Captivate.

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