Method for terminating Game about flame

[ahalforc]

I've taken a stab at allowing transitioning between flutter widgets and the game scene:
https://github.com/Joseph-W-E/flame/commit/5dfa97a07ded97b6a570ee477d106bfd01af27d7
There's still infinite exceptions thrown, but for this being a class project that's due soon, I'm going to shamefully pretend they don't exist.
Edit: It works, though. I can runApp(myWidget), then game.start(), game.stop() and get back to my flutter widgets.

[feroult]

Hi @Joseph-W-E

Great you are enjoying Flame!

Would you please explain the specific use case where you need to transition to Flutter widgets?

We've been discussing about this, it would be great to understand your needs.

Regards

[ahalforc]

Sure thing. https://github.com/Joseph-W-E/angry_arrows is a project I'm working on for fun / class. Basically, the class is an Android specific class, but we are allowed to use Flutter under the guise that we demonstrate how Flutter's UI architecture differ from Android's. To have some fun with this, we (my friend and I) are making a simple game that has two parts:

1. The home screen / main menu
   • this is done using Flutter Widgets
   • a button callback can invoke loadGameScene() to kick off the game engine (this is where flame comes in)
2. The game engine
   • done using flame
   • a very simple game (launch arrows into crates)
   • the game has a "back button" that invokes a callback (brings us back to Flutter Widgets)

The reason we want to use Flutter widgets

1. for class, obviously
2. much easier for building a pretty / interactive UI for the non-game-scene stuff (menu, settings, log in / log out, etc)

[luanpotter]

This is a very important use case and one we definitely intend to support. Currently, as @feroult mentioned, there has been some discussion but we didn't find a clear-cut best way to do it. In fact, we ought to rework the whole ServiceBinding strategy because of the supermixins issue.

I'll definitely take a look at your code soon, and if we can fix all the exceptions, we can PR you :))

Thanks for your input!

[ahalforc]

Sounds good! For what it's worth, here's my solution thus far. I've gotten rid of the exceptions happening on each frame, and have finally reached a bandaid solution good enough for this little project.

https://github.com/Joseph-W-E/flame/pull/1/files?diff=split

[luanpotter]

I have 0.8.0 which fixes this issue! @Joseph-W-E, see if the solutions fits your needs :)

[luanpotter]

This was no longer an issue on our tests, and the systems are very well integrated.

Feel free to open a new issue if you encounter any problem whatsoever, we'd love to help :)