Saving and restoring screen state

[RewindTheGame]

Hello all,

I have an issue I'm trying to resolve, but don't really know where to start on this one.

In my game, there is a button permanently displayed which displays an inventory screen. On the inventory screen, there is another button which calls (not jumps) to code which displays a virtual computer system (think DDLC). When the user logs off from this virtual computer, a RETURN is issued which takes them back to the line following the original call, so that they once again see the inventory.

The problem is this. The inventory can be activated at any time, which means that the virtual computer system writes all over whatever was on the screen. When the user closes the inventory and returns to the game, they are still looking at the graphics from the virtual computer instead of what was there before - so I need to be able to somehow save the screen state including all displayed graphics and layers before the call and restore them afterwards. How do I do this?

It's too late to implement the virtual computer as a screen, because I'd have to rewrite thousands of lines of code.

TIA,
Simon

[Ocelot]

It's too late to implement the virtual computer as a screen, because I'd have to rewrite thousands of lines of code.

Welcome to the reality of software development.
But if you want a qick fix, you can call you label in new context which should create a basically a new game state:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/label.html#contexts

[RewindTheGame]

It's too late to implement the virtual computer as a screen, because I'd have to rewrite thousands of lines of code.

Welcome to the reality of software development.
But if you want a qick fix, you can call you label in new context which should create a basically a new game state:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/label.html#contexts

Thank you, this works perfectly .