Unable to understand State View in Adobe Captivate

My best guess is one of two things:

1.) You may have accidentally toggled the "eye icon" to be off next to the name field for highlight_1. I would double check there isn't a red slash going through it.

2.) You likely have a pause point somewhere in your timeline and your grey object is sitting futher beyond the pause point. I would ensure there isn't a hidden pause and that your grey object appears after 0 seconds.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Not only the timeline but also the State Objects panel for the gray shape to see the exact situation 

Are you sure that you didn't select the eye button in the Properties panel of the gray shape to make it hidden?

Moreover: you have a simple action (Change State...) for the highlighT_1 button, and kept the feature 'Continue Playing the Project'. That means that the playhead will be released with the action, and I suspect you don't want that to happen at all.

If you ever read one blog post for Captivate, please read this one:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/pausing-captivates-timeline

 Not understanding the timeline is one of the primary causes for problems with starting Captivate users. As for the multistate objects, here is another link:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/about-state-commands-and-a-progress-bar

Can you post an image of the timeline?

Let me move this to the Captivate forum for you, which is the appropriate forum for your question.

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