Change Scene from external javascript

[MaxZieb (Loves Hype)]

You most certainly can also use Global Behavior an extension and invoke
HypeGlobalBehavior.triggerCustomBehaviorNamed('nextScene'); and then listen to '#nextScene' to fire the action.

Hype Global Behavior (Custom Behavior Extension)

[HypeGlobalBehavior] This idea got triggered back in the day when trying to explain Custom Behavior as Tweets. The idea stuck with me … Mostly I use Hype these days for Widgets in CMS-Projects, hence I thought I share the concept of a unified communication pipeline across individual widget. So, I recreated LocalConnection from the Flash-days with a little Twitter-twist and named it GlobalBehavior: Hint: The code is an extension. It enables all Hype-Widget loaded on the sa…

But actually the HYPE.documents['your_document_name'].showSceneNamed('scene2'); should work… I am guessing you got the document name wrong. You can get the name when looking into the console and inspecting HYPE.documents on your preview just type Object.keys(HYPE.documents) OR by running alert(hypeDocument.documentName()); from anywhere inside your Hype document functions.

If you are sure you got the name right then the scope of your callback could be the issue. Meaning that this is not a synonym for window and then you would need to use window.HYPE.documents['your_document_name'].showSceneNamed('scene2');