Return to a menu from a menu [Solved]

[enzof2003]

Hello, i tried to get a tablet system working. Like you click on a power button to show the menu of the table inventory then you click back to show the menu same menu.
I'm having trouble to make a button that is from the inventory to go back to the tablet menu. Since both of them are menu, the Return action put me back in the game. I tried to use ShowMenu("tablet") but it didn't worked...
Any ideas ?

Here the codes for the tablet menu and the code for the inventory button return :

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screen tablet:
    style_prefix "tablet"
    add "tablet.png"
    hbox:
        vbox:
            label "{font=halo.otf}{color=#00ff33}{size=+20}Data and body management device" xpos 330 ypos 50 
            imagebutton:
                #Button to the inventory
                idle "inve.png"
                hover "inveB.png"
                xpos 300
                ypos 240
                action Show("inventory_screen")
            imagebutton:
                #Button to the abilities
                idle "stat.png"
                hover "stat.png"
                xpos 800
                action Show("stats_screen")
            label "{font=halo.otf}{color=#00ff33}Inventory management" xpos 255 ypos 40
            label "{font=halo.otf}{color=#00ff33}Abilities management" xpos 770 ypos 9
            label "{font=halo.otf}{color=#00ff33}{size=-5}Version 1.0" xpos 1100 ypos 120
            textbutton "Turn off": 
                #Button to return to the game
                action Return()
                xpos 580
                ypos 50

And for the button :

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    textbutton "Return":
        action Return()
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.95

[rames44]

What you might want to consider is adding a tag to your screen. When screens are tagged, only one of them will display at once. Thus, if your inventory screen, stats screen and tablet screen all share the same tag, then if you do Show(“tablet”) from the inventory or stats screen, it will remove the inventory or stats screen and replace it with the tablet screen.

Another alternative, since the inventory and stats screen should be shown on top of the tablet screen is just to have the “return to tablet” button use the Hide(“inventory_screen”) to remove the topmost screen and expose the table screen. I tend to like the former solution, as you don’t have to worry about UI elements lurking behind images still catching clicks, but it can depend on your game logic exactly how you’re writing things as to which is best.

[enzof2003]

Thank you ! I used the Hide("inventory_screen") and it worked. The tag system seem harder to do than the Hide action. So for now it work

[Imperf3kt]

I used to use Hide(), but then I discovered the ToggleScreen() function. Perhaps it is more suited for you?