Button functionality changed from V6 to V7 making my course material unusable.
ActivePresenter Version: 7.2.3
OS: Win10
Notes:
In course material which I created in ActivePresenter back in 2013 and have regularly updated since, I have Next and Back navigation buttons consisting of a Button and a Text Caption slightly offset. The On Rollover event for the Button shows the Text Caption and being slightly offset with bold text, gives the impression of button movement and so provides feedback to the user. Then the On Click event either moves to the next or previous slide as appropriate.
However since upgrading from V6 to V7, that functionality has been disrupted. Hovering the mouse over the Button causes the Text Caption to flash and the Button can only be selected by touching the edge of the Button where it is not covered by the Text Caption.
In earlier versions of ActivePresenter the Text Caption didn’t appear in the Timeline. However I suspect that now because in V7 they are shown on the Timeline and at the top of the stack that once they are shown due to being triggered by the On Rollover event when the mouse is hovered over the Button and so is ‘hidden’ from the Button. This causes the Text Caption to repeatedly be shown and then hidden.
Is there an equivalent method I can use in V7 to achieve the effect which I have used successfully in previous versions?
I have read the manual and looked at that tutorial, however when I open Object States for the Button, there is just a single state being Normal (Default).
and if I add a new state which I want to apply for mouse hover, I do not see any way to link it to the hover action.
I read that a Button has four default states: Normal, Hover, Clicked, and Disabled, but my existing buttons or a new one I inserted doesn’t appear to have anything but the Normal (Default) state.
I forgot to mention. The button converted from version 6 doesn’t haven multiple states by default. Please inserting a new button instead.
We are sorry for this inconvenience.
So as I understand it I can use the Object States method to change the appearance of other objects, not just buttons, when the user hovers over or click on the object. Is that correct?
If so, if I want to use the Object States method to change the appearance of another object, for example a shape which I want to change color when the mouse is hovered over it, how do I link the new state I create to the hover action?
I thought that the purpose of the Object States, but I can’t see the method in the user manual.
Thanks for your great support. Of course the Change Object State is a new action to me and I overlooked its addition in V7.
Using Object States in conjunction with buttons achieves exactly what I had to implement by other means in the earlier versions.
Unfortunately now I have many sides to update with new buttons! Not all buttons are the same and so I don’t think I’ll be able to use Apply to All Button Objects, but hopefully I’ll find a time saving way to do the update.
Thank you for your suggestion, but it seems that even though I save Object Change State actions for the Button in a Master Slide Layout or save a Button containing Object Change State actions as the default Button
If I apply the layout containing the Button, while it appears on the slide, the Button is not shown on the timeline and so I can’t edit its properties to suit the particular slide, eg. its start time & duration.
Perhaps I’m doing something wrong and need to do more reading of the manual or looking at tutorials.
But if I just copy and paste Buttons from slide to slide, all actions, including the Object Change State actions, are contained within the pasted Button.
