How to retain the state of a scene in Hype

[MaxZieb (Loves Hype)]

You need to save the State when leaving a scene and restore it when loading it. There is no general state you can access so you need to collect all the data by hand (timeline positions, displays) and then redeploy them (setting displays and timelines).

There was a request yesterday that falls into this category

Retain state of scene when moving to next, then returning

QUESTION: Is there a way to get the scenes to retain their state when moving from one scene to another and returning to them? Let’s say i have 2 scenes. On scene 1 i click the word RED from a series of buttons with text and the word RED appears over the underline. Blue and ______ create purple. buttons: -red- -purple- -green- Now i move to scene 2 and answer another similar question. When i go back to scene 1, it’s reset to it’s starting state so the word RED is no longer over the underli…

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Switching between flexible layouts keep same place in timeline

Hi there, I have a few flexible layouts for various sized devices, for example iPad Portrait / iPad Landscape. My question is when switching between layouts turning the iPad from portrait to landscape is there a way to keep the same position in the timeline. I have a slideshow of images so switching between layouts means the slideshow is reset back to the starting image rather than remaining where the user left off. The timeline is the exact same on both layouts so I wondered if this would be…

In general you can access the localStorage or sessionStorage (look these terms up) and you can put stuff into the window context but always need to run two functions on a scene load and unload (save/restore). I also sometime store stuff into hypeDocument as this variable gets pass around into every hype function and is local to the Hype instance.