How to activate states of objects

[FHensel]

So I've got another question, and I've got a feeling i'm going to be pestering the Captivate community on here quite a bit.

I want to add a state to an image, which would enlarge it when it's clicked.

I've already added a new state, set the image to the size I want it to be, but when I preview the slide nothing happens when I click on the image. I'm aware from your very own help pages that I need to activate it, but this option you tell me to use isn't available to me.

I don't have that option to set the action of the object state available on my Captivate page. See below;

So how do I activate this state, or any state for that matter????

Any help would be greatly appreciated because those help pages really don't help a noob as inexperienced on Captivate as me.

Thanks

[Lilybiri]

I know, sighing, Help is awful not only for newbies.

Look, out of state view, with the object selected for a blue circle with a white arrow in it, to the right of the + buttonn (which adds a state). AFAIK you'll need a cickable object to change the state.

I blogged a couple of times about states, here is one link:

Playing with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

[FHensel]

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for getting back to me. I see the blue circle in the white circle, but it's greyed out. I'm going to assume this is because my image is not a clickable object.

Do you know a way for a participant to enlarge the image as it's a table needed to answer the question. Storyline didn't allow tables to be imported, so the workaround there was to turn a table into an image and then you were given an option to add a zoom option on the image, allowing it to be enlarged if clicked upon.

Is there something similar in Captivate?

[Lilybiri]

Captivate has a Zoom object, but I would prefer to use a shared or advanced action to show a better quality enlarged image. Of ccurse, they call me the 'Advanced actions Queen'

[FHensel]

So how do you implement a shared or advanced action?

[Lilybiri]

I think you are on a quiz slide? In that case the only interactive object that can be used is a shape button. You can turn any image into a button (maybe use the thumbnail image?), explained here how to do that:

Turn an Image into a Button - Captivate blog

You can use that shape button as a toggle button to show the enlarged table image and to hide it again. Toggle actions are really easy (I use mostly shared actions),,look at:

1 action = 5 Toggle Buttons - Captivate blog