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I tried to make something that allows you to reset your game. I tried to make it but the button would not reset. No error message in console

 resetButton = display.newImage("image/reset.png")  
 resetButton.x = 300  
 resetButton.y = 512  
 resetButton.isVisible = false  
 resetButton.alpha = 0  
 resetButton.scene = "menu"  
function changeScene(e)  
if(e.phase == "ended") then  
director:changeScene(e.target.scene)  
end  
end  
  
resetButton:addEventListener("touch", changeScene)  
local onCollision = function (self, event)  
if event.phase == "began" then  
 if event.other.name == "spikes" then  
 resetButton.isVisible = true  
 transition.to(resetButton, {time=500, alpha = 1})  
  
 self:removeSelf()  
 self = nil  
  
 end  
 end  
end

that is my code. How would I make the reset work. I am trying tutoials but nting is wokring [import]uid: 55737 topic_id: 10044 reply_id: 310044[/import]

2

what is e.target.scene?

Did you define that somewhere in your code?
If you’re trying to reset the game/level then I have two ways of doing things that I can suggest to you.

  1. create a function that will reset all the variables back to
    their initial values.

example:

[lua]-- initial values

local gameScore = 0
local bullet = 20
local life = 5

– this is the reset function, call it when you want to reset game
local resetGame = function ()
gameScore = 0
bullet = 20
life = 0

– etc…

end
– the touch function
local resetTouch = function (e)
if e.phase == “ended” then

– call reset function
resetGame()
end
end[/lua]

  1. if you’re using director class ver. 1.2 then you will need to create a loading.lua

example:

level1.lua --> loading.lua --> level1.lua

[lua]local resetTouch = function (e)
if e.phase == “ended” then

– change to loading
director:changeScene(“loading”, “crossfade”)
end
end[/lua]

the harder part is inside your loading.lua
You might have to create a global variable to store the scene you loaded from so loading.lua can load back to that same level.

I hope this make sense. [import]uid: 12455 topic_id: 10044 reply_id: 36628[/import]

3

Going based on teex84’s reply, I used the 2nd method. I have a database in my game so I created a new column called “currentlevel” and I just wrote which level I was on to that column, then I transitioned to a temporary screen (loading.lua). In loading.lua I would read that value from the database then transition back to that level. The only way I got this to work was to put a very small delay in the loading.lua before transitioning back to my level.

I tried the first method he mentioned and I could never get it working properly. [import]uid: 31262 topic_id: 10044 reply_id: 36636[/import]