how to call an event from one scene to another?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

HI,

I am currently using composer to manage scene.

When the character dies in the current scene, I call an overlay screen, which displays a play button.  When the user taps the play button, I want to be able to restart the current scene.  

I know I can hide the overlay by doing this

 composer.hideOverlay( "slideLeft", 250 )

but I need to somehow tell the current scene to restart.  So I thought maybe I can have a event in the current scene and from the overlay screen I can dispatch that event.  How can i do that? any ideas? or is there another preferred method of doing this?

#2

that’s cool, I just found this

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/composer/hideOverlay.html#examples

#3

that’s cool, I just found this

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/composer/hideOverlay.html#examples