Multi-state object return from visible to invisible after a few seconds?

Hi Community,
I have a folio for ipad. on the second page is a picture of a technological product. i made several info buttons on top of it that open a descriptionbox for the specific area of the product via MSO.
Is it possible to let MSOs return to their invisible state after a few seconds? I tried the timing option, but that didn't worked out. the object returned to invisible immediatly. not after the set timeframe of 3 seconds.
my only solution was to make extra close buttons for each MSO to return to invisible state. but that leaves the Infotext boxes open all the time unless you close them manually.
another idea was to make each info button close every other infobox. but that is messy and didn't work very well on the first attempt. and still leaves one infobox open all the time.
PS: sorry if unclear, for typos and language. Not native.
Hendrik

there is no way to automatically close an MSO n seconds after it was manually opened by the reader.
yet...
but thanks anyway

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