text: Scene transitions
  With the new type of Scenes with Nodes instead of using Layers or implementing draw(), what are the options when building an app with multiple Scenes?
  Before many used the MultiScene class (). When no longer using draw() this seems less natural.
  I've also seen suggestions of calling Scene.run() multiple times, but that show the swipe in from bottom transitions and is stacking the Scenes on top of each other.
  There's also the Scene.present_modal_scene() as shown in the BrickBreaker example. It is very nice when using a modal Scene, especially when you only want it to cover part of the screen. But it is not really switching from one Scene to the next.
  In iOS's SceneKit there is the SKTransition class that is used to transition from one SKScene to another using SKView presentScene. Even without any fancy transitions I don't really know the preferred way to do this in pythonista.
  Let's say I have five Scenes in a game:
  - MainMenuScene
  - SettingsScene
  - CreditsScene
  - PlayScene
  - NewHighScoreScene
  The possible transitions:
  MainMenu <-> Settings
  MainMenu <-> Credits
  MainMenu <-> PlayScene -> NewHighScoreScene -> MainMenu
  Let's say I would want to build that. Can I do that with normal Scenes, or do I need to build something myself? Any ideas are very welcome.
  OK, now I have an example of what I'm thinking about:
  It's the five Scenes put together into probably the most pointless game of all time.
  The main menu shows three buttons and a high score. On the Credits screen and Settings screen you can only go back to the main menu. If you press Play the game starts. The game consists of a button labeled "+1" and another labeled "Game Over". Every time you tap "+1" you get a point. When you press "Game Over" the game is over. If you achieve high score the "New High Score" screen is shown. Then you are back in the Main Menu.
  I went with the "MultiScene" construction, but the class is called SceneSwitcher to separate it from the earlier MultiScene calss. Every time a scene is shown all its nodes are moved into the SceneSwitcher, and when it is replaced the nodes are moved back.
  There are a few limitations to this strategy:
  - If the Scenes change background color after setup the background color is not changes.
  - If scenes add nodes to itself these will not show up on the screen (this is why I only change children of top level nodes in the example)
  - There are more I'm sure...
  I'm not too happy with how this turned out. I would have liked to link together a few normal Scenes. Does anyone have a better idea how to do this?
  I feel like I have three options here:
  - Continue with this hack
  - Build something more elaborate, that does not use multiple Scenes
  - Wait for an addition in the scene module that handles Scene transitions
  Any ideas anyone?
  The new scene module has
  Scene.present_modal_scene(other_scene) Present another scene on top of this one. This can be useful for overlay menus etc. While the scene is being presented, it receives all touch events.
  which seems to do what you want.
  dismiss_modal_scenewhen it is done
  Thanks JonB, but I don't think that's what I'm after. I would like to string together a couple of normal Scenes into a larger app. Some of those scenes might want to present a modal scene itself. If I use that method to switch between scenes I would not be able to display real modal scenes.
  I've continued a little bit on the gist I shared in the previous post. I realised that Scenes are Nodes, and that made things a little bit cleaner. I even added fade through black or white transitions and slide transitions between Scenes.
  The SceneSwitcher class is actually starting to look useful. I'm having some network problems with my iPad. I'll try to share the code in a gist tomorrow.
  I too struggle to understand modal scenes... Two questions on the snippet below:
  - Is there a way to make the OverlayScene opaque so the text from the MainScene does not make it unreadable?
  - Why don't the background_color settings work?
  import scene class OverlayScene(scene.Scene): def setup(self): #self.background_color = 'midnightblue' # EDIT: this line commented out and next line added scene.SpriteNode(color='midnightblue', parent=self, size=self.size).anchor_point=(0,0) scene.LabelNode(self.__class__.__name__, position=(self.size[0]/2, self.size[1]*0.9), font=('Helvetica', self.size[0]/20), parent=self) def touch_ended(self, touch): self.dismiss_modal_scene() class MainScene(scene.Scene): def __init__(self): scene.run(self) def setup(self): self.background_color = 'black' scene.LabelNode(self.__class__.__name__, position=(self.size[0]/2, self.size[1]*0.9), font=('Helvetica', self.size[0]/20), parent=self) self.present_modal_scene(OverlayScene()) def touch_ended(self, touch): if not self.presented_scene: self.present_modal_scene(OverlayScene()) if __name__ == '__main__': MainScene()
  @ccc, you should have a look at game_menu.py in the Games examples. The class MenuScene is the modal Scene used in all the game examples. The background color of the modal scene is ignored. Instead you need to create your own background. The MenuScene has a nice rounded rectangle with a border implemented with a ShapeNode. It even has a shadow.
  The easiest way is probably to simply create a SpriteNode with a color but no texture.
  Thanks @Oscar ! I inserted a one line change in the code above. Of course, @omz version is much slicker😕
  See the comments on the gist... I removed SceneSwitcher and simplified other logic. NewHighScoreScene is not yet working...
  The possible transitions: MainMenu <-> Settings MainMenu <-> Credits MainMenu <-> PlayScene -> NewHighScoreScene -> MainMenu Could be rewritten as: The possible transitions: MainMenu <-> Settings MainMenu <-> Credits MainMenu <-> PlayScene # if new high score then remove PlayScene and immediately show NewHighScoreScene MainMenu <-> NewHighScoreScene
  By this logic, instead of main() being
  run(PlayScene(MainMenuScene()))perhaps it should just be
  run(MainMenuScene()).
  Repos are so much easier than gists ;-)
  My SECOND comment on the gist has it all working. I thought that
  Scene.present_modal_scene()blocked the presenting scene until the presented scene was dismissed but it does not.
  Now I've added what I wanted from the beginning: Transitions
  The new version of the code is here:
  Thanks @ccc for teaching me to set LabelNodes' text properties instead of creating new ones. Very handy indeed.
  There are now three (actually four) transitions:
  - TransitionCrossFade (fade from the old to the new scene)
  - TransitionFadeWithColor (fade through a color to the new scene)
  - TransitionPush (sliding the new scene into view, while pushing out the old)
  - TransitionImmediate (which is not really a transition at all, just a direct switch)
  The whole thing is very much inspired by SKView of SpriteKit::
  And the names of transitions are from SKTransitions:
  It seems to me to work pretty well now, so I will go on with what I wanted to do from the beginning: build something. If anyone sees something that does not work or will cause problems, please let me know. Any and all comments are welcome!
  I just made my first animated gif!
  This is what the scene transitions in action looks like. The gif is just 10 fps, but on the device it is of course in full frame rate:
  So that is five different Scenes put together.
  The point of the experiment is to stitch together normal Scenes into a larger app. Right now the Scenes does not have to know anything about the SceneSwitcher until they use it to start the next Scene.
  - Webmaster4o
  This is pretty cool, great job
  Am I wrong, or does the above code only work in the beta version of Pythonista, that has not yet been released yet?
  Yes, the Code is for the new Scene module. For the current version of Pyhonista the old MultiScene solution works very well.
  I came back to try this again, just to make sure it is still working before I try it with my students. When I use the current version of the original Pythonista and this:, the app is just crashing on me now.
  Is anyone else having this problem?
  Scenes have changed a lot since those posts were written and now multi scene support is builtin.
  See: scene.Scene.present_modal_scene() and scene.Scene.presented_scene.
  I am having a problem presenting the second scene with the present_modal_scene().
  Does anyone have an example of the best practises using this?
  This is what I have so far:
  (note: I am using a UI.view since I want to place it in the PythonistaAppTemplate and then into Xcode)
  # for use with from scene import * import ui class FirstScene (Scene): def setup(self): self.background_color = 'midnightblue' self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:PlayerShip1Orange') self.ship.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.ship) def touch_began(self, touch): # question? # how do you get to the second scene? self.present_modal_scene(my_second_scene) class SecondScene (Scene): def setup(self): self.background_color = '#704414' self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:EnemyGreen2') self.ship.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.ship) def touch_began(self, touch): pass my_scene = FirstScene() my_second_scene = SecondScene() # Instead of... # run(MyScene()) # ..use: main_view = ui.View() scene_view = SceneView(frame=main_view.bounds, flex='WH') main_view.add_subview(scene_view) scene_view.scene = my_scene main_view.present(hide_title_bar=True, animated=False)
  @mrcoxall Your code works for me, but note that modal scenes don't draw any background (i.e. the
  background_colorattribute is ignored). You might want to use a colored
  SpriteNodeto prevent the first scene from shining through. This behavior is intentional because a common use case for
  present_modal_sceneis to present a menu overlay with transparent background (as in the included game examples).
  So omz was correct and the background was the first problem.
  When I do it for just a single scene, it all seems to work fine.
  My next problem is that I tried to make it move from one scene to a second.
  Problem is I am getting a "Value error: inconsistent Node hierarchy", when I try to move from the second scene back to the first one.
  The good news is that I placed it in Xcode and the App template works great.
  Here is my code:
  # for use with from scene import * import ui class MainScene (Scene): def setup(self): # this is the starting scene, for ui.View # all other scenes will come from self.background_color = 'black' self.present_modal_scene(first_scene) class FirstScene (Scene): def setup(self): # add background color self.background = SpriteNode(color = 'white') self.background.size = self.size self.background.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.background) self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:PlayerShip1Orange') self.ship.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.ship) def update(self): pass #x, y, z = gravity() #pos = self.ship.position #pos += (x * 15, y * 15) # Don't allow the ship to move beyond the screen bounds: #pos.x = max(0, min(self.size.w, pos.x)) #pos.y = max(0, min(self.size.h, pos.y)) #self.ship.position = pos def touch_began(self, touch): # question? # how do you get to the second scene? #self.dismiss_modal_scene() self.present_modal_scene(second_scene) def touch_moved(self, touch): pass def touch_ended(self, touch): pass class SecondScene (Scene): def setup(self): # add background color self.background = SpriteNode(color = 'green') self.background.size = self.size self.background.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.background) self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:EnemyGreen2') self.ship.position = self.size / 2 self.add_child(self.ship) def touch_began(self, touch): self.present_modal_scene(first_scene) #pass main_scene = MainScene() first_scene = FirstScene() second_scene = SecondScene() # Instead of... # run(MyScene()) # ..use: main_view = ui.View() scene_view = SceneView(frame=main_view.bounds, flex='WH') main_view.add_subview(scene_view) scene_view.scene = first_scene main_view.present(hide_title_bar=True, animated=False)
  @mrcoxall Use
  dismiss_modal_sceneinstead of
  present_modal_sceneto get back from the second scene to the first one.
  from scene import * class FirstScene(Scene): def setup(self): # add white background SpriteNode(anchor_point=(0, 0), color='white', parent=self, size=self.size) self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:PlayerShip1Orange', parent=self, position=self.size / 2) def touch_began(self, touch): self.present_modal_scene(SecondScene()) class SecondScene(Scene): def setup(self): # add green background SpriteNode(anchor_point=(0, 0), color='green', parent=self, size=self.size) self.ship = SpriteNode('spc:EnemyGreen2', parent=self, position=self.size / 2) def touch_began(self, touch): self.dismiss_modal_scene() if __name__ == '__main__': scene_view = SceneView() scene_view.scene = FirstScene() scene_view.present(hide_title_bar=True, animated=False)