Trouble with Show Object On click action

Problem: I’ve created an interactive slide with an image of 5 steps in a process flow. Over that image, I’ve placed 5 click boxes. When the learner clicks a box, it should show a corresponding shape with details about the selected step.

I’ve tried this six ways from Sunday and cannot make it work. I tried rollover, hidden, states, layering, etc. When I preview, I usually get nothing. Once I got the first text to appear but none of the others. The Next Page button also doesn’t seem to continue the presentation.

I am sure I am missing some tiny checkbox, but I don’t know what it is. Any suggestions for a longtime developer, new to AP?

ActivePresenter version: 9
OS: Windows

Notes:

Pardon my crude example but something along these lines?

Feel free to study my file.
I created a single shape with five states for the information panel and created an onClick event to show the matching state.

Hopefully this helps.

showSteps.approj (292 KB)

Thank you. I will look into your example. I am now running an experiment for doing this through changing states thanks to a You Tube video.

Do you find the HTML preview sometimes has trouble replicating the actual performance?

I have not had any troubles with preview.
If you open my file and do a preview and are not able to smoothly see the text change for each of the five steps on the left - I would suspect a browser issue.
It works fine for me.

Another possible issue if you’re not getting the sort of response is if you are utilizing the timeline and there are pauses / jumps to various parts of the timeline. These can often snare many and finding them can sometimes prove difficult. I prefer not to use it and all is event driven rather than time driven.

Also - I am using an older version 9.1.2 as I do not have issues with it for my usage. I would think a version difference would be less likely an issue with your preview or more people would be speaking up on it.