Having a hard time with something I feel like should be easy but has had me flummoxed most of the afternoon. I'm building a educational simulation designed for third graders where students learn a little, make a choice, learn a little more and then either stay with their original choice, or choose …

The scope of a variable will depend on how it is defined. If you want a variable that is universally available within a Hype document (but not elsewhere) you should consider using Hype custom data. Check out this forum post for more details: [image] hypeDocument.customData quick …

[image] NotDaveJohnson: Do variables travel through the various scenes? If not - what should I do here? To expand on @drewbullen 's answer a bit, Hype event handlers are functions, so when you do something like: function chooseA(hypeDocument, element, event) { var a = 1; var b = 0; var c…

Moved my post here: [image] Hype Reactive Content Extension Project [HypeReactiveContent] The intention of this project is to provide a way to bind the content of an element to a variable using data-content, as well as set the value of a variable by assigning a value to …

All of you - huge thanks! Over the last few years I've kicked the tires on most of the stuff Hype can do without using Javascript and now I'm dipping those toes in the water. Was a HUGE q-Basic programmer back in the day but never anything more complex. I couldn't figure out why this was not work…

You're welcome. I'd go with @drewbullen and @jonathan if you're into learning the regular Hype way. My reactive approach is more a convenience approach if the focus is on getting things done in a production environment over learning coding. I updated the reactive code, should be even more robust now…

I'd love to know both! I've picked up several Javascript books on coding (mostly for kids because I'm an older dog and this is a new trick) and have been working through code for this and collisions for these interactives. But I obviously have more to learn because in rewriting my examples I'm on…

I am not really sure why you don't just use a single variable and determine the route from it. Are the variable like toggles? In the other case, there is a single variable/choice … meaning an variable that can be either of the decisions, but not all. Another hint is… I like to use switch statements …

If I'm reading up on "switch" correctly I would still have to define the variable selected back in the previous scene. My "guess" based on your hint: the choice they pick on the previous scene is toggled as 0-5 (or 1-5 here) using custom behavior and that number tells Hype to change what I have as…

Everyone - a massive kudos. I could not get these solutions to work but then I remembered my old friend Occam and his razor. Rather than creating a complex set of if/then statements, I used and tailored the suggestion above to use custom data. This means I now have 6 javascript functions A-F that…

That definitely sounds like the simplest solution! (And finding those is definitely part of the joy I have in programming too!)

Javascript variable portability between scenes

MaxZieb (Loves Hype) June 21, 2022, 12:12am 4

Moved my post here: