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Adding and removing hot spot distractors

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

In general, you'll be placing the hot spot distractors over another graphic that the user is really intended to see. You may want to make your hot spot assets semi-invisible during authoring to visualize this. You can do this by turning the alpha effect setting down on each hot spot. This setting is overridden by the interaction scripts at runtime.

To add a hot spot distractor:

1 | Create a movie clip symbol containing the graphics for the distractor object. For example, if you have an image that will have six hot spots, and you want to add a seventh choice, create a movie clip of the seventh graphic and place it in the library.
2 | Select the Hot Spot 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 spot.
| The component will do all the rest of the work for you at runtime.

To remove a hot spot distractor:

1 | Select the hot spot instance that you want to remove, and delete it from the Stage.
2 | Select the Hot Spot component (to the left of the Stage if you are using a quiz template), then display the Component Parameters panel (Window > Components).
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.