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Best way to handle loading project assets?

See original GitHub issue

Currently, Costumes don’t appear until their images are loaded, and sounds only play once they’re loaded.

There are some APIs that would greatly benefit from Costumes’ images being loaded at construction-time, and projects not being “really loaded” until some inteterminate point in the future is not ideal.

To fix this, there would need to be some sort of API for loading a project and all its assets, but I’m not sure what that would look like.

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adroitwhizcommented, Jan 13, 2020

There still needs to be a better API for loading projects, IMO. Costumes would greatly benefit from preloading, and if an audio engine (for drums/instruments and sound effects) is implemented, sounds will need to be preloaded as well.

Currently, you make a project with new Project(), which is synchronous. I was leaning towards replacing the Project constructor with Project.from() or something like that, which returns a Promise<Project>.

The PIXI Loader API might be helpful to look at as a source of inspiration as well.

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PullJoshcommented, Jul 18, 2022

Closing in favor of #133