Struglling with Appstates

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@eth

I want to disable Main Menu State and enable the other one, so how can I disable it

stateMgr.getState(MainMenuState.class).setEnabled(false);
…or…
stateMgr.detach(getState(MainMenuState.class))

Personally, I’m having trouble figuring out where your confusion is.

You can see how I use app states here:

AppState Question

If you want to see how I personally use app states then there are many places to look. You can look at the code for Monkey Trap which was a partial game I wrote using Zay-ES and Lemur. You can also look at SimArboreal: https://code.google.com/p/simsilica-tools/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FSimArboreal-Editor Or the IsoSurface demo: https://code.google.com/p/simsilica-tools/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FIsoSurfaceDemo All of which use app states heavily… though I don’t know if any of them sp…

Essentially, app states are a way to temporarily “extend” the application’s functionality. As such they are useful for lots of things… “screen management” is just one small thing.