Loading graphic?

[graphicsgeezer]

My Hype presentation is nearly 9 Mb. Is there anyway to create a "loading" graphic or animation to show viewers it's coming?

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

The simplest way is to check "Show loading indicator" in the Document Inspector.

Other than that, there are manual techniques here:

Creating a Custom Preloader

When you have ‘Show Loading indicator’ checked in the Document inspector, your visitors will see a notice when your document is loading. Below are a couple ways you can change this loading screen: Show an image while your Tumult Hype document loads This video by @darren_pearson is a good walkthrough of how to to this. First of all, if your Tumult Hype document is loading slowly, this article gives tips on speeding it up. The quickest thing you can do is to open the Resource Library and uncheck…

Unfortunately there's not currently a way to make a good progress indicator without extreme effort.

Of course if possible I would advise trying to reduce resources and the initial load time if possible!

Decreasing load times and optimizing performance: Preparing a Large project in Hype

Tumult Hype is built for producing animations as a part of other websites, but we have also seen projects that take the form of entire websites. While building and launching large Tumult Hype projects with many scenes is possible, there are a few things you should keep in mind to ensure that your website loads quickly, works well on mobile devices, and is easy to maintain: Defer loading of images Images added to your document will need to be downloaded when your visitor first visits your site, …

[graphicsgeezer]

Thanks! That worked like a charm! I just didn't know about it and I was searching for "Loading" without getting any results. I'm still testing my file on other computers and may break it down into smaller bits if needed.

[michelangelo (Freelancer)]

a progress bar? http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

(specifically in regards to a progress bar, I mean there's no way to get % loading data out of Hype's runtime currently. So if you want to show accurate progress you'd need to take over the entire preloading flow yourself)

[wolfman117 (Trevor Young)]

Any 'progress' on this (sorry )?

We are exploring loading screen options for our Hype created web book in development galdosgift.com

Currently we are using a custom loading screen that shows a GIF and a piece of static text. Which is relatively reassuring for the user but maybe not as much as a progress bar.

Is it still the case that progress bars for loading screens are a no no?

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

At present (Hype v4.1.18) there are no new features to help with the preloading process. You would need to control the preload yourself if you want to achieve progress indication.

[wolfman117 (Trevor Young)]

Thanks, Jonathan.

I guess the GIF does give some confidence that the book is loading and it may be that we animate the text below in some way too.