Reloading a game with corona sdk

Question

I am creating my first iPhone game and cannot figure out how to reload my game.

I am using coronaSDK and have tried to use their composer API. When the player dies a button with "play again" appears and when he touches it I direct him to a scene called "reload.lua" with composer.gotoScene("reload").

In this scene I have the following code:

function scene:show(event)
    local sceneGroup = self.view
    local phase = event.phase

    if (phase == "will") then

    elseif (phase == "did") then
        local replay = display.newImage('star1.png', 100, 300)
        composer.removeScene("level1")
        composer.gotoScene("level1")
    end
end

However, this only adds level1 on top of the existing one and does not remove the one that has been used. Any ideas on how I could successfully remove level1 or reload my game?

Answer 1

While this is based on Composer's older brother Storyboard, the concepts still apply to Composer. It explains the various issues with trying to reload scenes, recommendations on how to manage it:

http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/08/20/tutorial-reloading-storyboard-scenes/

Answer 2

You should read this article slowly and carefully.

The source explains:

For Composer to “manage” your scene and the display objects within, all of these objects must be inserted into the scene’s view display group or a child display group of it.

The group is referenced in your code by the line at the very top of the scene:show function:

local sceneGroup = self.view

You must add all display objects into this group, for example your local replay should be:

local replay = display.newImage('star1.png', 100, 300)
sceneGroup:insert( replay )

Once above design is followed you can start utilising the other features of the composer as you request.