Text hidden in cloned hotspot

[jakenorton]

Hi all,

I've got a 1-node tour in which I'm building research results for different years of research. My aim is to enable the user/viewer to turn on/off hotspots and polygons for each year, and/or have them all displayed or not. I've got that fairly well figured out.

HOWEVER, after building out my first set of hotspots (for year 1999), I copied that item in the skin, duplicated it, renamed it for a new year (2001), changed it's icon, and began adding hotspots. What weird is that title shows on the hotspot when hovered over, the popup appears when the hotspot is clicked, but there is no text in the popup. (Yes, text is there in the description, and text box is set to $(hd).) The text does populate for the other year (1999), but not for the new one (2001). Here are some screenshots:


Showing the data from the working hotspot.


And, the one with the new hotspot, showing the popup but no text.

It seems that this may be something to do with z-index settings, or some visibility settings? But, it seems strange that the issue would affect only the text - $(hd) - and not anything else in the cloned/duplicated component.

Anyone have any ideas? I've spent hours trying to get this to work, and not getting anywhere. Here's the skin, attached, if helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Jake

[SMerriss]

Hey Jake,

Do some dummy checking on your hotspot. Instead of trying to use $(hd) to populate the text field, use some random text in the text field to see if even that will come up. Also, try using the 1999 hotspot with the 2001 info to see if that works. It's just a matter of trying to isolate all the moving parts to see where it breaks. Personally, I would try recopying the 1999 hotspot and restarting on the 2001 hotspot, checking after every step to see if it is behaving as you would expect it too.

Also, looking at your skin, I can see that some of your wires are getting crossed with the container "ht_info_text". I'm not sure if this is causing any problems, but I would double check and rename one of them.

- Spencer

[jakenorton]

Hi Spencer,

Thanks for the reply and thoughts. I did try with dummy text, and that broke, too. But, I finally got it to work - not entirely sure how, but it's working!

Thanks again, and best,

Jake