Get frustrated with GS - button now working but only in GS preview.

StormyStudio

Good afternoon from sunny England..

Ok, so I spent hours and hours last night trying to fix a simple problem.

create a button to go from one scene back to main menu.

Tried every which way to fix it, new button, new rule, copied and pasted a new main menu to link to. Then just now I've recreated the menu from scratch, I can now go to a highscore page and back using a simple ....if 'touch pressed' 'change scene'.... button.

But it only works in preview, when viewed on GS viewer on iphone 3gs it goes to highscore page but wont come back.

Any ideas, there's lots of rules/physics/buttons going on in the main game, but they are in another scene.

Please help, as I've spent a good number hours on what should have taken 30 seconds.

On a brighter note the rest of the game was coming along swimmingly....

synthesis

Is there a switch in your main scene that is bouncing you back to your HS page?

StormyStudio

Nope. Nothing in either scene now except a background image and a button to the other scene. Works fine in preview?

synthesis

Try deleting the actor that is bad and then clone the actor that works and change the art and the scene target. If that doesn't work...something is definitely funky!

StormyStudio

Ok will give that a try. Cheers

Hunnenkoenig

I made my buttons so:

Image is X

If pressed change image to Y (that gives a "push" feel to it")
If released change image to X

After 0.1 second
Change scene to A

StormyStudio

Hunnenkoenig, nce idea...may add that...

Got it working now, but it is a very dumb work around. I have to have a duplicate of the main menu scene and link back to that. It can then go backwards and forwards happily.

thought maybe it would work only keeping the new duplicate main menu but it does not.

So at least it works, hopefully I won't have to have a new main menu for each button linking to it.

Hunnenkoenig

You do something wrong.

I would say, make only one button from menü to highscore and copy it and change it accordingly.

If the one button works, just copy it as many times as you wish.

Maybe you edited the instance of the button instead of the master actor or vica versa. I don't know, how your menu is built and structured.

But if you want a menu button which is placed on different pages and always go back to the menu, then don't edit the instance of the button, just the master actor should say "change scene to menu" and place the button on as many pages as you want.

You can add also a sound to the pressed rule, so it has a click sound :-)

rebump

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