Up arrow in pause menu lingering after closing the menu?

[pkmnacademia]

I've been dealing with a weird problem that I can't figure out how to resolve. I've tried a few methods but nothing has worked properly.

My game has a lot of new Natures so I'm trying to add a Nature Guide with pictures of stat tables.

I'd prefer it as a Pokegear app, but I think setting up a new scene/screen is slightly beyond my coding abilities and Show Picture doesn't seem to work within the Pokegear. Had the same issue trying to have an item that did it; I'd need to close the Bag and I'm not sure how to get that to work.

So I was effectively able to get what I wanted working from the pause menu, but with one major issue: when everything closes out, the "up arrow" at the top of the menu gets stuck on the screen forever.

Before opening menu

Opening menu

Showing picture when selecting "Basic" from the choice menu

Closing the menu - the red arrow in the top-right is now stuck and follows everywhere, even when reopening/closing menu

I've tried a variety of variations of the code within the UI_PauseMenu script, and this is what I'm using now:

And the common event it opens:

It does go away if I delete 4 or 5 options from the pause menu so no up arrow shows up on the menu in the first place, but I can't really delete that many things from that menu... Any clue what I need to do to make the arrow go away?

Or even better, any idea what I could do to make the Pokegear close upon selecting a Natures app and display a choice menu that I can show pictures from instead?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Swdfm]

Okay, so this is a very common issue with making screens
Luckily, every time this happens, it is the same problem, so it is easy to fix every time
The way is to think of sprites as like machines. They are switched on (created), have to be maintained (Usually with a .update method) and then switched off (By using something called dispose)

What would have happened in this case is the up arrow was definitely created, but not "maintained", or not disposed at the right time (When the pause screen closes)

I would say that using "Show Picture" is a good idea, but it is literally only useful for showing a single picture, and any use of it beyond that may lead to further issues
So, I recommend anyone wanting to make custom screens to use custom script for the reasons I just mentioned
Having a look at the Pokegear and the Trainer Card screens for inspiration are very good for beginners

Upon taking a brief glance at your common event, what it looks like is that you used "Exit Event Processing" too early, though I may be wrong about that

This has inspired me to write a tutorial, but please don't hesitate to respond or contact me if you need any further help

Hope this helps
Swdfm

 

[Swdfm]

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