Delaying loading of a symbol or timeline

[HyperFocus (Happy Hyper)]

The persistent symbol placed on the next scene did not preload the HTML widget on the next scene. See this doc. On scene 1 you can see the website is loaded, but when you click the Next Scene button, it still takes a few seconds to load (its not already loaded) -- which for my usecase takes even longer as it is heavier.

Preloading on different scene.zip (30.5 KB)

There are quite a few posts on preloading the next scene but I could not find any that solves the problem.

1. I tried using this one but all it does is immediately load the next scene on the current scene, as far as I can tell.

Can we get the properties of an element of a different scene from the current scene?

You are right… this is what is happening with Hype. I’ve meddled with some JavaScript code to make the scene change, but hiding the scene change in order to make HYPE populate the elements from a different scene… I’m not too proficient with JS and I was getting an error in the lines of… “error on call stack… too many calls” and my HYPE Document wasn’t running. (Hence the delayed response because of all this meddling with JS) Today, I’ve managed to achieve this, after a bit of educating myself …

hypeDocument.showNextScene();
nextScene = $(".HYPE_scene").filter(":visible");
nextScene.toggle();
hypeDocument.showPreviousScene();

2. I am curious what Hans meant here:

Preload Scene using Javascript

hi, feed an array with filenames for each scene. use hypes attribute ‘hype_scene_index’ to identify the next scene. preload corresponding files …

Any specific guidance would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Hyper