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Configuring a Hot Object interaction

The Hot Object interaction accepts one to eight hot objects. The default sample uses six hot objects.

To configure a Hot Object interaction:

1 | If you are not using a quiz template, place the learning interaction on the Stage. If you are using a quiz template, select the frame on the Interactions layer that contains the Hot Object interaction. (Frame 6, if you have not added or removed keyframes.)
2 | Break the movie clip apart (Modify > Break Apart), display the Component Parameters panel, and then type the interaction ID and the question. See Configuring a Learning Interaction component .
3 | For each object, select or deselect the Correct option to specify whether the object is considered a correct or incorrect response when the user clicks it. You can have multiple correct selections.
4 | Select each instance of the Hot Object interaction on the Stage (you can delete the placeholder instances and place your own movie clip instances on the Stage). Use the Property inspector to give each instance the same instance name that you specified in the Component Parameters panel.

Adding and removing hot object choices

You can change the default number of six distractors (choices) by adding additional distractors or deleting existing distrators. You can include from one to eight hot object distractors in a Hot Object learning interaction.

To add a hot object distractor:

1 | Create a movie clip symbol containing the graphics for the hot object distractor. For example, if you have an interaction that has six types of fruit, and you want to add a seventh choice, create a graphic of the seventh fruit and place it in the library.
2 | Select the Hot Object component on the Stage, then drag the symbol from the Library panel to the Stage.
3 | In the Property inspector, name the instance. See Naming and registering graphic distractors.
4 | Add the instance name to the Component Parameters panel for the hot object.
| The component will do all the rest of the work for you at runtime.

To remove a hot object distractor:

1 | Select the Hot Object movie clip instance that you want to remove, and delete it from the Stage.
2 | Select the Hot Object component (to the left of the Stage in the quiz template), then display the Component Parameters panel by launching it from the Property inspector, if necessary.
3 | Remove the deleted object's instance name from the list in the Component Parameters panel.
| Note: If you register distractors for the Hot Objects component that do not exist on the Stage, a Trace Output error message will appear when you test the movie.