Buttons in object states

I am having some problems creating buttons in object states...I have a colored rectangle and a text box in each object state...I have selected the rectangle as the button to show the next state (there are only 2 states) and the second state leads back to the first one...
but in some of the object states the text box does not appear? if i don't have the second state as a button then it appears ok (but I can't return to the first state)
any ideas? do i need to group each text and rectangle before placing it into the object state and subsequently making it a button?

@Bob – it seems it is the only way to get something like a button control from one MSO to another.
I stumbled over this just today so I had no time for testing.
So duplicating an MSO seems to be an option…
The example you see in the movie is a folio with PNG output saved as v20. Version 24 in this configuration is also doing fine.
I think we have to explore the new possibilities this will give us.
Though, I'm a little uneasy, because we leave the targets of the buttons inside the duplicated MSO in a very strange state:
Uwe

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Hiding buttons in object states

I am trying to do something that I feel is very simple but I'm losing my head working it out ;-) I have a simple page with multiple buttons that display a full page photo. It's all working fine, but no matter how I try and use layers, I simply cannot hide all my buttons. The attached images should explain what I am trying to do - there are buttons (the pins) which each trigger a full page photo using object states. Obviously I don't want those pins to show on my images. I feel like I am missing something very simple... thanks heaps for any assistance.

Yeah, it's pretty simple:
Build your layer 1 grouping pins and map together. Or make a single full page graphic showing map and pins. Put your buttons (transparent rectangles) above the graphic and attach a "go to state n" action to each.
All photo layers should have a full page image with a "go to state 1" button above it. Sometimes I use even a simpler method – I just convert the image itself to a full page "go to state" button. I like the user experience: click anywhere on the page to go back to hotspots.
Your document will have nothing outside the MSO, neither in background, nor above the MSO.
The only tricky part is , that when you copy/paste buttons into object states, they loose their assigned actions. After completing the MSO you have to visit each button by selecting it in your layers panel to assign proper action.
You can set the time of cross-fade between the states in the Folio Overlays panel.

Alternate button or object states

Hello,
I want to do something simple, but I haven't figured it out so far.
In InDesign I want to:
Roll over a button
The button changes to text
Roll off that text
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Back to step 1
Does that make sense? All I want to do is alternate what the roll off does - alternate between two states. All these elements are stacked. Can someone explain what I need to do? Thanks you

To be more clear...
A button is showing
Roll over that button
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Roll off that text
That text changes to a different button
Back to step 1
It's for an interactive PDF portfolio
Thanks!

How to control Object States of different objects with single button?

I have a set of Images, stacked one on the other. I have selected all of them & created Object States for them. I also have a set of Text Objects, each containing a description of the images. These text objects are also stacked on top of each other & I've created object states for them too. I have two buttons which go to previous state & next state. When I do a mouse release operation on these buttons, only my images are moving from state to state.
My question is how do I control the states of these different types of objects (images & type) so that they change states in sync with each other - I want to have an image 1 with its description, then image 2 with its description & so on. Thanks in advance.

You just group your description with images

Can ObjectStates become buttons that link to another object state?

Hi. I am working on Adobe CS5 and I am trying to create an Image gallery. I know how to create the basic type which is stacking the images, making them as object states, and then linking the navigation buttons to "Next State".
The type of image gallery i'm trying to make involves thumbnails. In the thumbnails menu, there are back and forward arrows that will move the thumbnails from left to right. The way i did it was grouping the thumbnail images, convert them as object states, and just do the Left/Right animation through the Object State menu. The problem is, I can't make those thumbnails link to the picture it is assigned to. The Object states that appear in the button menu is just the object state of the thumbnails and not the Image viewer it self.
If it is needed that i post a SWF demonstration of this, can someone show me how to?

Here is a sample image
What I'm trying to do is have a scroll like action with the thumbnails and when the user clicks the specific picture/thumbnail, the enlarged image will appear on the top.
the only way i can create the scrolling action is by making the thumbnails into MOS and just change their position in each state. the problem is I can't link the thumbnails specifically to the image it is supposed to display. I hope this explanation helps.

Buttons under a state object

How can I make inactive, a button, in a state object, which is located under?

@diametrabi – can you elaborate your question a bit more?
A sceen shot could help. You could attach it when using the forum software:
Uwe

Need help with Object States or Buttons?

I currently work in InDesign to compile layouts and present design decks to clients. Our template includes an approval section (Not Approved, Revised, Approved) that we currently have as white/black bubbles that we change manually on each page. I've been trying to find a way to speed up this process. I know that in InDesign you can create buttons than you can then click on-off on your PDF - we used to do this but it is too time consuming (we have PDF's anywhere from 25-120 pages). I have been playing around with Object States, so we can quickly update the bubbles in InDesign itself as we work.
Does anyone know of a way to change the state of multiple objects on multiple pages at the same time? (For example, if I want to change all pages to "Approved" at the same time - or if I only wanted to do some, but not all, of the pages.)
Can anyone recommend any other InDesign tools that may be able to create a similar function for an "approval" stamp, but that still is done in InDesign (not in the PDF after exporting)?

I was hoping that wouldn't be the only way. My have multiple master pages already, and not all pages will be "approved" at the same time. So we've run into issues with putting these on the masters as it gets easier to miss them.

Cannot find object state button

Hi,
I am having trouble finding the object state button on my inDesign cs6 for some reason.
I do see the interactive menu, but there isn't an object state button.
Anyone have any idea what is going on?
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Haven't used PSE5 in a very long time. I don't remember what version of Elements we added Layer Masks to, but I do remember that older versions didn't have this feature, and it is possible that 5 falls under this category. There is a bit of a hack though, as seen in this link: Faking A Photoshop Layer Mask In Photoshop Elements

Controlling and object state from a button within an object state

I have a MSO with a set of fridge images, to show the different colourways, but I also want to be able to show open and closed versions of the images.
My idea was to have two MSO, one with the colour varients and one with the open varients and have a button inside the colour varient MSO so each colour shows its own button, but it looks like that button can only control the MSO that it is part of, is there anyway for it to trigger the second MSO?

Ok well this is a screenshot from the laundry page, but its the same as fridge freezers.
There is a MSO called colour change, and the red box is the button which has a go to next state action.
I was going to have a second MSO with the open versions of the products that would be triggered by a button in each state of the first MSO, but this isn't possible.
I don't want to put all the images in one MSO because that button is specifically to change the colour of the product.
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Problem with object state...

Hi guys
So I have this grid with 25 pictures.
And I would like to use each of these pictures as a button. This button will trigger a frame with text in the center of the grid, like so :
The X close the text frame and the user go back to the grid.
But, I have 2 problems. I can mak a object state of the text frame and the button triggers one state (open/close for exemple) and it work. But if I click on the second square without closing the first text frame, the text frame linked to the first square is still there, underneath...
Is there a way to 1 : a click triggers the texte square link to it AND close all the other
Or is there an easier way to do it without object state?
Thanks

You have the grid of pics as your background. Then buld a state for each photo/description.
If you have have 16 pictures you'd build 16 different states for them. Combine them all into one MSO.
You'll need to put the buttons into each state to make it work and you'll need one state with only the buttons with no fill or stroke over the background grid.
You'll need to experiment to decide if you want the buttons to be live for all of the images in each state. It's lots of buttons and there's no automated way to do it, but it works well and avoids the problem that you're having now.
Bob

Links in object states don't work

I have an object state with several text boxes, hyperlinks and buttons works fine, UNTIL i create buttons to control the object states appearance. Then the integrated links in the mso don't work.
Have tried with new document, new folio etc. As soon as I delete buttons to control the mso, the links works perfect. HELP please

Hi,
You can solve this problem putting the buttom outside the MSO. And recreate the links inside the MSO.
//Felipe

Object States not working on iPad

Hello!
Crossing my fingers someone on here can help.
I am working on, and nearly finished a children's book I made for the iPad. Everything looks great on my desktop content viewer but when I preview the app using the content viewer on my iPad a lot of my object states are being ignored. I searched these forums on people running into this problem but nothing seemed to turn up that related directly to myself.
A lot of my object states are triggered by a button click and all timed to start one after the other so the image sequences I made in after effects look as seamless as possible. After the button click however it seems as though only 1 object state runs and then the rest are ignored.
Here is a link to a video I recorded using quicktime to show how the app will function. I was hoping to record sound this wknd and hope this problem can be resolved soon!
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bobmagan wrote:
It fires on both onactivate and onfocus. I had to do that to work on the Mac clients. Look at the code:
onactivate="get_select_list_xml1(this,$x('P507_FORMS'),$x('P0_LOGIN_SCHOOL_YEAR'),this,'REFRESH_REPORT_LAYOUT_LOV');" onfocus="if((typeof this.onactivate)!='function'){get_select_list_xml1(this,$x('P507_FORMS'),$x('P0_LOGIN_SCHOOL_YEAR'),this,'REFRESH_REPORT_LAYOUT_LOV');}"What about just
onfocus="get_select_list_xml1(this, $x('P507_FORMS'), $x'P0_LOGIN_SCHOOL_YEAR'), this, 'REFRESH_REPORT_LAYOUT_LOV');"If not, supply the following information:
<li>Full APEX version
<li>Full DB version and edition
<li>Web server architecture (EPG, OHS or APEX listener)
<li>Browser(s)/version(s) used
<li>Theme
<li>Template(s)
<li>Region/Item type(s)
and the <tt>get_select_list_xml1</tt> JS code.
Post code wrapped in tags<tt>\...\</tt> tags to preserve formatting and special characters.

Object state not working if exported in PDF

I'm working with Digital Publishing Suite and I have deeply appreciated the function "Object state". When used in connection with buttons and, eventually, the "Overlay Creator" it enables superb effects.
I wonder about the fact that this helpful function does'nt work if the document is exported in PDF.
Just in fact, at the moment, this feature works only with DPS, but I know that it is present since CS4, in times when DPS did'nt exist.
Can you explain this?
And when will be available in PDF exported documents?
Thanks
Lorenzo

Hi Rahul,
I have created the hyperlinks in the interactive (html) mode.
While creating the hyperlink you just need to check one option "Use Complete URL path". This option will enable the hyperlink
in the pdf mode too.
FYI.. I am on BO XI 3.1
Regards,
Rohit

Object states in interactive PDF?

Is it possible or will it be a feature soon? I know I can essentially accomplish the same thing hiding buttons, but I have some very complicated object states in my interactive swf files and would like to publish them to PDF so they can be viewed on an iPad. Will this feature ever happen?

Don't hold your breath. PDF is now an ISO standard which means that it won't change quickly. There is no concept in PDF to support object states.
Also you should know that the PDF readers on the iPad don't support much if any interactivity.
You best best is creating a publication with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. That would be more difficult to learn than PDF and more expensive. To learn more about it, see this link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60174dc2eb12f2ca67c28-80 00.html
This technology supports slides shows like you can create with the Object Styles panel.

Does DPS support Object States or will it in the future?

Most, if not all of the interactive publications I have designed in ID CS5 use object states to deliver large amounts of content in a cleaner, less-cluttered manner; I find the object states feature of InDesign to be by far the most powerful interactive component. Does DPS have the object states feature or will it in the future?

Yes, object states are supported. Create object states, select object states and then fine tune in the Overlay Creator. You can make buttons to go to next/previous or specific state, you can autoplay swipe through object states etc.

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