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WMS
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9 months ago
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Preload webobjects. Is it possible?

This is a more advanced question: During the lesson, I use the OpenAI API to generate an image. Once I retrieve the image URL, I pass it to a web object to load the image from the URL. However, when...
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Nathan_Hilliard
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9 months ago

Is the WO local to your module or or does it link to an external site? Is the delay from generating the OpenAI image, fetching the finished image through the URL, loading the external page in the WO, or waiting for the local WO to be ready in SL?

If you have the final image URL avsailable in SL, perhaps you can forego the WO and just swap the source attribute of an existing placeholder image of your slide?

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    WMS
    Community Member
    9 months ago

    At the start of the course, an image is generated, and its URL is stored in a variable. When a slide containing a Web Object is displayed, the variable holding the image URL is passed to the Web Object. The sole purpose of the Web Object is to display the image from the provided URL.

    How do I change the source attribute? Can I do that before user is in that slide? What if many users are using the content?