Is it possible to hide/show an audio box (like a button or MSO)?

Question

Hello,

I'm working on an interactive booklet for the University of Illinois in which I'd like to be able to use icons as buttons to hide/show multiple video boxes, audio boxes, and text boxes on the same page. I've been able to convert the video and text boxes to buttons so that I can hide/show them when I click on their corresponding icon buttons, however, it seems InDesign won't allow me to turn an audio box into a button (even after grouping it with other objects). Do you know of any way that I might be able to hide/show audio boxes using buttons or multi-state objects?

Thanks,

Michael Linsner (mlinsner@illinois.edu)
Justin Parker (jparker@illinois.edu)

Answer 1

You can create an invisible button using a rectangle with no fill and no stroke if you need a button somewhere like for your audio. You can also make a multi-state object (MSO) that has an empty state as the first state. You can set an action on a button to go to the state that contains the content.

Comments

Thanks for the input! After spending some more time on it, I eventually figured it out. I'm using multi-state objects for the various video, audio, and text boxes and then using the icons as buttons to toggle through the objects.

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You're welcome, and I'm so glad you figured it out! :)