Enabling and Disabling Objects

Any object in Creator can have actions added to it and when the trigger is activated, the list of actions begins to play. However, Creator has provided a way of switching an object’s actions ON (i.e. enabled) or OFF (i.e. disabled).

This is a very useful feature often used to give a user a choice of options that in turn switches other options on or off. For example, you could design a menu system used on every page in your publication and on some pages certain menu options would be switched off.

Note:
You can enable and disable objects on any Master Page the current page uses. The objects from the Master Page will appear at the top of the list.

 

Disabled Objects:

  1. An object can only be disabled using the Disable Object action.

  2. If the object is disabled it will display the Disabled appearance if you have set one in the object’s Properties dialog.

  3. The list of actions you have applied to the object will NOT be played.

Enabled Objects:

  1. All objects are enabled unless you have used a Disable Object action on a specific object. To make a disabled object enabled again, use the Enable Object action.

  2. If an object is enabled it will display the Normal appearance as it has been set in the object’s Properties dialog.

  3. The list of actions you have applied to an enable object will play whenever the trigger you used is activated.

Related Topics:

the Disable Object(s) action

the Enable Object(s) action