Storyboard + Overlay + TableView refresh questions

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#1

I’m appealing as a new adopter, so please let me know if I’ve missed something really obvious. I have code to post, but the description here may be enough for starters:

I’m trying to use a storyboard scene and an overlay scene to replicate iOS ‘popover’ windows, complete with the pointy triangle they require. The base scene contains a tableView widget and a separate edit button, which invokes the overlay (i.e. “popover”) to let the user edit fields associated with a selected row in the table. The idea is that the user scrolls to / taps a class in the list and then clicks the edit button that pulls up an overlay (popover in iOS-speak) to change its name (or later on other variables).

I’m running into a refresh issue with the base storyboard scene, which contains a list of classes shown in a tableView widget. I can get the overlay to appear (modal even works!) and editing the text field in the overlay/popover works.

BUT, when the overlay/popover is closed up and we return to the base scene the tableView doesn’t refresh. If I scroll the list in the table enough times eventually the new value will show in the row that was edited, but I want the table to be refreshed as soon as the overlay/popover editing is completed.

Is my overall approach sound? Is there an obvious way to refresh an existing tableview widget? Do I have to destroy it and recreate it after each overlay call (ugh). Other tricks/suggestions?

I’ve put my table creation/listener code in the ‘enter scene’ function, thinking that it might be invoked again after the overlay is done, recreating the table, but I think I’m missing something here.

I’m pretty new at this so thanks in advance for any ideas. I can post my code, too.
I’m using build 828.

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#2

Updated 6/23 - issues and questions still present with build 841 - but scroll bars work which is great!

Today after posting I looked at daily builds docs to find this nice news:
**Fri, 2012-06-22 04:55 - Release notes for build 2012.840 through 2012.841

Widget (0.7): Added vertical scrollbars to tableView and scrollView widgets. Fixed bug where ‘strokeWidth’ parameter was not working with widget.newButton() (non-graphical buttons). Fixed bug where ‘noLines’ parameter in widget.newTableView() was not no longer working. Casenums: 14011, 14852**

I still can’t find a good strategy for forcing a refresh on a TableView the way I have it set up here.
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#3

I’d be very interested to see if there is an answer to this.

I’m finding the overlay is not particularly helpful for this very reason. In my app the overlay appears with a question on it, and depending on the answer the original scene will change.

However when the overlay ‘hides’ it does not call the enterScene function for the original scene, and so nothing refreshes. So I called storyboard.reloadScene() which causes the enterScene function to trigger. But now if I try to reopen the popup a second time I notice it calls the enterScene function on the original scene again, even though I am LEAVING that scene.

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