No rollover area for HTML 5. What to use?

[CaptivEd]

I really like the rollover areas for the "how to navigate the course" slide. You mouse-over a button and it gives you a description of what it does. However, there is no "rolling over" on an iPad. What have people used instead for an effective substitute for HTML 5 publication?

[Captiv8r]

I stand to be corrected here, but I believe that's what the new "states" feature is intended to handle. Instead of rolling over, the user clicks and the state changes.

I understand that one of the reasons for no rollovers in HTML 5 is that there is no way for a mobile device to sense a hover that your finger is near but not totally touching a specific area where the mouse pointer easily does that.

Cheers... Rick

[CaptivEd]

Thanks, Rick...I should have mentioned I'm using CP8 so no states for me...

The workaround I'm thinking of is putting shapes around the navigation object to be described and then putting a click box over it and change the "Success" text. I've not tried this yet. Maybe someone else will have another workaround. Not sure how well this will toggle on/off.

[Captiv8r]

The other option I might consider would be to have captions with the desired text that are hidden. Then have actions that are defined that cause them to show to be revealed upon a click.

Cheers... Rick

[CaptivEd]

Hmm...the click box idea seems to not work. It does not toggle the success caption on and off as I hoped it might.

Maybe the navigation directions are not that important...

[Lilybiri]

Use a 'toggle' interactive object that will show/hide any object or even group which you want to appear. You can use the shared action that I described in this article, but do not use the states for the interactive object. Anyway if it is a click box, it doesn't have states, not even in CP9:

1 action = 5 Toggle Buttons - Captivate blog

[tony00777]

In Cap 9, you can add a shape and select "Use as Button"

Then go to State View, one of the states is Rollover.  Delete the other states, and then add other shapes, text, etc. to the rollover state.