New to Defold...Stuck on the colorslide tutorial

Questions
#21

I’m guessing that you hide one gui but fail to show the other?

#22

In a sense yes. Upon hitting play, the screens are suppose to reverse so the start is hidden and the level select appears. This is in the function on_input of the start script I believe. Again both scripts are running and with no error message it makes these problems rather tough to solve.

#23

Well, if the code hasn’t changed since you shared the code with me then this is wrong:

-- start.gui_script
msg.post("#level_select", "#show_level_select")

There is no message handler for "#show_level_select" (note the ‘#’ sign that shouldn’t be there):

-- level_select.gui_script
function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
	if message_id == hash("show_level_select") then
		msg.post("#", "enable")
		self.active = true
	elseif message_id == hash("hide_level_select") then
		msg.post("#", "disable")
		self.active = false
	end
end

You can always set a breakpoint on the first line of your on_message functions to check the incoming messages. Or add print() statements.

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#24

Well that fixed it. I will continue on with the tutorial. I appreciate all the support everyone has given me on this thread. Thank you!

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