Jumping back to label from which screen was called (SOLVED)

[meiri]

Alright, so I'm going to be reusing a screen several times during my VN, and obviously the screen will be called from a different label each time. But each time I call the screen, and the player clicks a certain button, I want them to be able to jump back to the label from where the screen was called that specific time.

I wrote a mockup code of what I'm trying to do here.

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screen jumpback: 
    textbutton "Back to label" xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 action # ... and here is where i am confused.


label start:

    "Alright..."
    "Let's go to a screen!" 
    
    $ renpy.call_screen("jumpback")
    
    # when the user clicks the textbutton in screen jumpback, ideally, they would come back here.
    
    "Now that you've clicked the text button, we're back to this point!"
    
    jump start2
    
label start2:
    
    "Let's do this one more time...."
    "To screen jumpback we go!"
    
    $ renpy.call_screen("jumpback")
    
    # Now here we are, in a DIFFERENT label, and I once the user clicks 'Back to label' textbutton, they come back to this spot, not the spot in label start.
    
    "Great job of clicking that textbutton! We're back to this label.."
    
    return

As you can see, I don't really know what action to use, or if this is really even possible. I feel like maybe Return() would work but it might not nor I am sure how to go about it. If there's no way to do it in the way I'm thinking, I'm of course open to any alternatives.
Thanks in advance.

[xela]

What happens if you just hide the screen?

[Alex]

When you call a screen, the game stops at this point, player will be forced to interact with the screen untill it will return anything, then the game will continue, so the action should be Return("some_value").
If you need this value, you can store it like

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$ renpy.call_screen("jumpback")
$ x = _return

or

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$ x = renpy.call_screen("jumpback")

[meiri]

What happens if you just hide the screen?

Well, for what I am actually trying to do, I have several screens layered on top of each other, and when I tried to hide them all at once, it gave me an error saying it can only take 3 parameters, not 6.

When you call a screen, the game stops at this point, player will be forced to interact with the screen untill it will return anything, then the game will continue, so the action should be Return("some_value").
If you need this value, you can store it like

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$ renpy.call_screen("jumpback")
$ x = _return

or

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$ x = renpy.call_screen("jumpback")

This worked perfectly! Thanks.