Making a button not hidden in GameScene - ios

Question

Hello my question is simply how to unhide a button in GameScene. I have a segueToMainMenu button that is set up in storyboard.
This is how my GameViewController looks:
#IBOutlet weak var segueToMainMenu: UIButton!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let scene = GameScene(size: view.bounds.size)
let skView = view as! SKView
skView.showsFPS = true
skView.showsNodeCount = true
skView.ignoresSiblingOrder = false
scene.scaleMode = .AspectFill
skView.presentScene(GameScene(size: skView.bounds.size))
scene.viewController = self
self.segueToMainMenu.hidden = true
}
I set the button to hidden but now in my game I would like to unhide it when a lose func runs in GameScene since when the button is clicked it segues back to the main menu which is a separate view controller also created in the storyboard. Anything helps thank you.

Answer 1

You either can create a delegate for you scene which will call appropriate method on gameOver and do something like
// in the view controller
func gameSceneDidSendGameOver() {
self.segueToMainMenu.hidden = false
}
//in the scene
var gameOverDelegate : GameOverDelegate?
func gameOver() {
gamOverDelegate?.gameSceneDidSendGameOver()
}
Or do it a little bit of ugly way like:
func gameOver() {
let gvc = self.viewController as GameViewController
gvc.segueToMainMenu.hidden = false
}
Edit: Declaration of the delegate protocol.
protocol GameOverDelegate {
func gameSceneDidSendGameOver()
}
class GameViewController : ViewController, GameOverDelegate {
...
func gameSceneDidSendGameOver() {
self.segueToMainMenu.hidden = false
}
}