Hi Colette!
The following is intended to show You a simple method for accomplishing your request (it is not a bomb proof solution) which You will need to adapt to your situation. This method uses Hype’s timelines & a wee bit of JavaScript. (There is a one line script in the “Head HTML”, plus two JavaScript functions - “loadSceneGoToTime” & “unloadSceneCurrentTime” - each consisting of one line.)
Hype Project Demo: ButtonChoiceTimeline_JHSv1.hype.zip (24.3 KB)
In the “Head HTML” we initialize the variable: sceneOneTime = “0”;
This will be used to set the initial value of the variable “sceneOneTime” for the timeline “Scene 1” (i.e. the first time the viewer views “Scene 1”) at zero (seconds).
If You want to work with more scenes initialize them too in a similar manner - with each scene having its own timeline and variable name… e.g. a timeline named “Scene 2” with a corresponding variable named “sceneTwoTime”. These names are made up - use what works for your style.
Click a button (“Red”, Purple", “Green”) in “Scene 1” to fill in the name for that choice. What we are doing here is going to a particular time in the “Scene 1” timeline. 1 second on the timeline shows “Red”, 2 seconds “Purple”, 3 seconds “Green”.
Click the “Go to Scene 2” button.
The “On Scene Unload” handler for Scene 1 (running the function “unloadSceneCurrentTime”) stores the current time in the “Scene 1” timeline (e.g. “3” seconds) in the variable “sceneOneTime”:
sceneOneTime = hypeDocument.currentTimeInTimelineNamed('Scene 1');
And then we go to “Scene 2”.
When the viewer returns to Scene 1 (“On Scene Load”) the value in the variable “sceneOneTime” is used by the function “loadSceneGoToTime” to set the “Scene 1” timeline to that value. For example a value of “3” sets this timeline to 3 seconds which equals the “green” choice being displayed in the sentence:
“Blue and _________ create purple .”