Hi,
I have a Main_Menu widget that starts music, when I click the Options menu and hit Return the music starts again, duplicating the music track, this is because of the ‘Event On Initialized’ event, but how do I make it so that the music only plays once when returning to the Main Menu?
Start Music at Main Menu then access the Options sub-menu (secondary widget)
Return to Main Menu from Options menu (main widget)
But you do not return to Main Menu. You create another Main Menu. Now you have 2 main menus. For a while at least; since the Main Menu is not referenced (never was? - we can’t see how it’s created for the first time), it will be scooped up by the Garbage Collection in a little while.
Perhaps look into how a Widget Switcher works. Think of it as of a book where each widget is a page and the book can only show one page at a time. You can switch between the pages without having to remove / create them. And since all pages exist, you can still control with them, even though they’re not showing atm.
I hate to be a pain, but do you think you could guide me on how to configure that?
All the menus live in the myWidget’s switcher:
No need to create / remove anything apart from the myWidget that holds it together.
The above can be set up better but should work just fine for a menu with a dozen or so screens. It, of course, assumes we’re displaying one menu at a time rather than some multilayered overlapping fancy 3d carousel stuff.
Hi,
Thanks for responding, I have created the widgets, made them variables in the ‘myWidget’ and added them into the graph as variables but I can’t see an option for ‘Set Active Widget’ or the ‘Widget Switcher 32’ variable or a ‘Set Active Widget Index’
You need the switcher, ofc:
I have created the widgets, made them variables in the ‘myWidget’ and added them into the graph as variables
I hope you have widgets as seen in the hierarchy above. Creating just variables is not enough. To clarify, we’re not using this button at all:
Create a custom event in the widget that plays music and call that event. if the main menu was playing music:
Something else can call it:
It’s a custom event. You need to call it somehow. See previous post.
Where did you get SET / New Var from?
how are you adding the widget to the viewport?
Return Value is not connected, the reference is invalidAh, it was because I was calling the old widget instead of the new one that acts as the widget swither
Thanks for your help on fixing this, really appreciate your lightning fast responses too! 
Sorry I spoke too soon, it still duplicates when I return from Options
Return value is connected
Don’t hook it to initialise then. Have a custom event and call it when needed.
The thing is that I see what there is duplicate? This should never ever fire more than once since this widget just sits and does nothing else but controls other bits.
Do you re-add this whole thing to the viewport?
Because Custom Event needs calling. They give you a chance to start / stop when you need it. I am a bit confused by what is needed, see above.
