Reload parent scene from an Overlay

Solar2D Composer
#1

Hi guys, I’m building a game and I got stuck. This is the problem: After the player loses an overlay is shown, it shows how many points he has made, and it has a button to restart. I’ve been googling a bit and found this thread: How to reload a scene and proceed like normal?. (btw, I’m using composer not storyboards)

So in that thread the advice is to do something like this:

main.lua (not a real scene but starts the whole process) --> menu.lua --> level1.lua --> tryagain.lua --> level1.lua

My “tryagain.lua” is not an scene, it’s an overlay that let’s the user see the parent scene. So if in the handler of my “again” button I do something like this:

handleAgain = function (event) if ( "ended" == event.phase) then composer.removeScene("scene"); composer.gotoScene("scene"); end end 

I get a black screen. How should I handle this???

Thanks a lot!!

#2

I’m not sure the best practice to reload the parent scene from the overlay.   Reloading scenes either requires you to use a “cut” scene so you can remove and then go back to the scene or you have to use just create your objects in the scene:create() and reposition/reset them in the scene:show()'s will phase.

For an Overlay scene to do it, you would have to have a function in the parent scene that did your reset and then you can call the parent’s reset function.  See the Composer guide’s section on accessing the parent scene:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/system/composer/index.html#overlays

As for the black screen, there are 99 times out of 100 a message in your console log.  Please see the Basic Debugging tutorial at to learn out to view these messages and understand what they mean.

Rob

#3

I’m not sure the best practice to reload the parent scene from the overlay.   Reloading scenes either requires you to use a “cut” scene so you can remove and then go back to the scene or you have to use just create your objects in the scene:create() and reposition/reset them in the scene:show()'s will phase.

For an Overlay scene to do it, you would have to have a function in the parent scene that did your reset and then you can call the parent’s reset function.  See the Composer guide’s section on accessing the parent scene:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/system/composer/index.html#overlays

As for the black screen, there are 99 times out of 100 a message in your console log.  Please see the Basic Debugging tutorial at to learn out to view these messages and understand what they mean.

Rob