Returning to "Extras" menu instead of main menu

[AERenoir]

In the extras section of my game, I have a "bonus scene" option. Since I'm using Start("label") for the bonus scene, if I put Return at the end, it sends me back to the main menu. I want to return to the Extras menu screen instead of main menu after the bonus scene ends. What do I do?

[philat]

Maybe this. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/rooms.html#replay

[Alera]

Maybe have a label for your extras menu and instead of using 'Return', use 'jump' at the end of your scene to go back to that label and the menu? But what @philat suggested sounds like a 'cleaner' way of doing it.

[KairuKyun]

Couldn't you just

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ShowMenu("extras")

Thats what i did

[AERenoir]

Maybe this. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/rooms.html#replay

Doesn't that require the scene to have been played first to activate the "replay" option? What I meant is that I have this completely new scene that you will not encounter in-game and only will be accessible from the Extras menu.

Maybe have a label for your extras menu and instead of using 'Return', use 'jump' at the end of your scene to go back to that label and the menu? But what @philat suggested sounds like a 'cleaner' way of doing it.

Yeah, I saw this method on the old cookbook in the Wiki, but it seemed rather roundabout and I wanted to know if there's a simpler way to do it rather than have multiple empty labels with nothing but "call screen" in it. Because if I use this method the script doesn't seem to work unless i make labels for every single item on my extras, including the CG gallery (unless I'm doing something wrong and didn't realize it).

Couldn't you just

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ShowMenu("extras")

Thats what i did

Huh? ShowMenu is a screen command, right? Will it work from a label?

Currently this is what my codes look like:

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screen extras:

    # This ensures that any other menu screen is replaced.
    tag menu
    
    imagemap:
        ground 'extrasidle.jpg'
        idle 'extrasidle.jpg'
        hover 'extrashover.jpg'
        
       
        hotspot (20, 15, 100, 100) action Return()  activate_sound "click.wav"
        hotspot (23, 146, 457, 121) action ShowMenu("cg") activate_sound "click.wav"
        hotspot (23, 272, 457, 121) action Start("bonusscene") activate_sound "click.wav" 

And then in script.rpy:

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label bonusscene
    "blahblah"
    return

[philat]

Read the whole document. There's a locked argument for the Replay action. If you set it to false, you can use it for new scenes.

[Alera]

If you're using a screen, wouldn't a simple 'show/call screen' at the end of your scene work? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation.

[AERenoir]

Read the whole document. There's a locked argument for the Replay action. If you set it to false, you can use it for new scenes.

I did read the entire thing, but I didn't get what the True/False setting does.
Got it to work now, thanks!