How to switch the state of an object in javascript?

[alexanders_the_guru]

Hello guys,

I have a big problem with my new HTML5 projects, i used always the SWF publish in the past... everything in my captivate is now based on HTML5 and javascript, and i do not use the advanced actions anymore... except of if i wanna switch the state of an object i have to do a mix of javascript and advanced action... so i am still searching for a java-command in which switches the state of an object... can anybody help?

[TLCMediaDesign]

cp.changeState("oldState,"newState");

You need to know the names of the states.

[alexanders_the_guru]

but i need know give with the name of the object, dont i? because when i duplicate the object then the names of the states are the same... and each object has the state "normal"

[TLCMediaDesign]

I don't understand. Are these button? Can you not change the names of the states?

[petern33480613]

@TLC

I have never used Java to change states, but reading your message above, am I correct in saying...

If I have four buttons North, South, East, West.

Each button has a "Normal" state.

I create a new state on each button named "Invisible".

Would the command cp.changeState("Normal","Invisible"); change the states of all the buttons?

But if I just want to change the state of the South button I would have to rename the states as "SouthNormal" and "SouthInvisbile" and then use cp.changeState("SouthNormal","SouthInvisble");

Peter

[alexanders_the_guru]

no its a normal smartshape and i can rename the states... one state is called "TestState1", the other "TestState2"... tried to switch it with a button and javascript on the action:

cp.changeState("Normal","TestState1");

and it doesnt work...

i copied the smartshape and the states-names are the same... so does this function not need the name of the smartshape too?

[TLCMediaDesign]

I've never done what you are doing, but if the state names are not different I can't imagine CP really knows what you are trying to do. So name them all differently and if you want to change the states of all four buttons, use cp.changeState four times.

[Lilybiri]

David, could the issue be due to the fact that Normal, Rollover and Down are InBuilt states, not custom states?

[TLCMediaDesign]

Could be Lieve, I've never found a reason to try and control the state of a smartshape button.

[Lilybiri]

I have swirched the Normal state for a custom state a lot when creating

toggle buttons, but always with advanced or shared actions. In that case it

is easy that you can have same names to states.

[Jefferbob]

Is the changeState method only applicable to the cp object? Can it be used at the child object level, like cp.myShape.changeState("oldstate","newstate") ? If not, it would seem that the object model is making a huge assumption that no 2 states would ever be named the same.

[TLCMediaDesign]

Not sure, I haven't looked into it too deeply. It's not something that is built for external JavaScript, that's just the function that is called when executed as an action. There could also be another parameter depending on the object.

[sdwarwick]

First,  the format of cp.changeState is not

 cp.changeState("oldstate","newstate") 

it is:

 cp.changeState("shapeID","newstate") 

Second, you need to set up and use states that are not "system" states.   Captivate monitors the system states and changes them at uncontrolled times.   Once you create a custom state,  captivate tends to leave it alone.  This can be seen in the javascript console.  if you change a button to "Down" state using javascript, if you mouse over it,  it returns immediately to Normal.

[RonLin]

I tried this changeState("shapeID", "statename") but it doesn't work in CP9.0.1.320

[RonLin]

OK it only works via HTML5...

[GilMichelini]

This worked for me once I created duplicates of the built in states

function stateChanger(btnName) {

var tTemp = window.cpAPIInterface.getVariableValue("play_pause_status");

if (tTemp == 1) {

cp.changeState(btnName, "Play");

} else {

cp.changeState(btnName, "Pause");

}

}

[Lilybiri]

Lot more complicated than a simple condition action. Why make it simple when it can be done in a more complicated way?