Restart app

totebo · July 2016

Is there a cheeky way to clear everything and reset the entire app? Could be a last resort solution for changing languages, resetting stats etc.

SinisterSoft · July 2016

You mean clear everything? I think @ar2rsawseen posted something in the forum some time ago to do that...

talis · July 2016

I found the old post i guess this is it.
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/4900/i-dont-understand-how-to-restart-my-game/p1

ar2rsawseen · July 2016

I remember I posted code that uses lfs plugn to iterate through |D| directory and delete all files, so nothing is persistently saved anymore.

But if you have a settings class storing all your settings, you can also have default values there and reset it withing the class

totebo · July 2016

I was thinking something more drastic; emulate app closing down, then opening again. A little like hitting the RESET button on Sega Master System.

SinisterSoft · July 2016

That's what I requested when Arturs posted the code, the code worked though - I can't find a copy of it though.

antix · July 2016

If all of your classes have a reset() function then it shouldn't be too difficult.

SinisterSoft · July 2016

@totebo - do you mean something that will clear userspace?

I've suggested...

Application:reset([state])
state could be default to just restart, possibly flags for clear user area (delete any files created) and/or jump into the player (ignore assets folder).

totebo · July 2016

I meant clearing anything in memory only. It would be a cheap way for a player to change their language, without having to find every textfield and update it:

1. User taps "change language to Swedish"
2. App saves their choice on disk in a config file
3. App resets
4. App loads config file and starts game in the chosen language

SinisterSoft · July 2016

Ahh - I see.

SinisterSoft · July 2016

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6609414/how-to-programatically-restart-android-app

Don't know how this would fit in Gideros though...

antix · July 2016

If the issue is really about TextFields and changing those I would think that whenever you create a TextField that you add it to a table called something like allTextFields and when the player changes the language, just iterate through that table, changing the text, destroying the TextField, and recreating it with the new font. Once all TextFields have been recreated, garbage collect the old font and you should be good to go. You could just use a simple alpha fade to fade the app to black and then fade it back in when complete.

It might sound bothersome but I think it would certainly be less of a PITA than basically shutting down and restarting the entire game.

totebo · July 2016

@antix, yeah that's what I thought too, and it makes sense in theory. In practice, each TextField I use have specific caching strings and are repositioned after their text have changed. That makes adding something like this in retrospect quite difficult. For the next project I may make a class to keep track of all textfields and their respective properties and how they are laid out. Tricky.

antix · July 2016

@totebo, with re positioning just make some code that handles them by their centers. Once you have that, recreating them is much easier.

ar2rsawseen · July 2016

@totebo if you are using SceneManager and all textfields are children of scenemanager, then reseting would be matter of reseting the scene

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