[phil.jahoda]

Hi

I have a gamewindow, and in it I declared various Scenes.
One Scene for menu, one Scene for Game, …

What I want to do is display the Menu Scene by default, which shows various buttons.
From these Buttons, I then what to load other Scenes to be displayed in the GameWindow.

How do I do that?

Main.qml
GameWindow {

id: window

MenuScene { ... }

GameScene { ... }

// and so on...
}

MenuScene.qml


MenuScene {

id: mainMenu

Button { ... } // should load the game scene
Button { ... } // should load some other scene

}
 

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi,

the easiest way to achieve this is by setting all scenes that you want not to display in the beginning to invisible, and change them to visible when the button is pressed (and set the active scene to invisible). You can achieve that by storing the current scene as a property variant. Another approach is using the states property in GameWindow: you can define in which states each of your scenes gets visible like the following code:

GameWindow {
 id: gameWindow

 MenuScene {
  id: menuScene
  visible: true // should be visible from the beginning

  Button {
    onClicked: gameWindow.state = "game" // switch to GameScene
  }

 }

 GameScene {
  id: gameScene
  visible: false // should only be visible in state game
 }

// the default state is "", and it sets the MenuScene to visible and gameScene invisible

states: [
    State {
      name: "game"
      PropertyChanges { target: gameScene; visible: true}
      PropertyChanges { target: menuScene; visible: false}
      StateChangeScript {
        script: {
          console.debug("entered state 'game'")
          console.debug("GameScene.visible:", gameScene.visible)
        }
      }// end of StateChangeScript
    }// end of State game
}// end of GameWindow

 

With this approach, both scenes are loaded at runtime. You could also load them when they are first needed with the Loader element. For more details, please see the ChickenOutbreak and Squaby demos in the FelgoSDK in the Demos/Felgo SDK folder.

Cheers, Chris