Swift - 1 screen to another screen - ios

Question

I have set you my UI for both screens and I don't want to do the connect the screens in main.storyboard. I want to click a button and it will take to that screen, I will do the fade animations and stuff like that later. I just need to know how to go to one screen to the next screen when I press a button. I can give an example of what I am talking about down below.
Example: In flappy bird before you start the game it tell you to tap on the screen, then when you tap the text fades out. That is what I want to do with my game. I am not sure if that is another screen or if that is 1 view that makes certain labels disappear once the screen is tapped.
My MainMenuViewController:
import UIKit
import SpriteKit
class MainMenuViewController: UIViewController {
var mainMenuScene: MainMenuScene!
#IBOutlet weak var playButton: UIButton!
#IBAction func playButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
mainMenuScene.playButtonPressed(sender)
}
#IBAction func playerButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
println("player")
}
#IBAction func LeaderboardButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
println("leaderboard")
}
#IBAction func shopButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
println("shop")
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//set up game screens
// Configure the view
// store a ref
// Create and configure the scene
mainMenuScene?.scaleMode = .AspectFill
// Present the scene
}
override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
return true
}
override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> Int {
if UIDevice.currentDevice().userInterfaceIdiom == .Phone {
return Int(UIInterfaceOrientationMask.AllButUpsideDown.rawValue)
} else {
return Int(UIInterfaceOrientationMask.All.rawValue)
}
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}
override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
return true
}
}
My MainMenuScene:
import Foundation
import UIKit
import SpriteKit
class MainMenuScene: SKScene {
var movingGround: PPMovingGround!
var square1: PPSquare1!
var wallGen: PPWallGen!
var isStarted = false
var playButton: UIButton!
func playButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
start()
}
func start() {
isStarted = true
square1.stop()
movingGround.start()
wallGen.startGenWallsEvery(1)
}
override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
}
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
}
override func update(currentTime: CFTimeInterval) {
}
}
I want to connect this code to my GameScene File. How do I do it?

Answer 1

I think I know what you're aiming for, since you don't want to do work with the Main.storyboard directly, you could do this:
presentViewController(YourNextViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
you would call that in the ViewController you are currently in to get to the next one.
Let's say you are on the main screen, as you said in Flappy Bird, when you tap the button, it could change to a different View Controller
My tip would be to nest this method in a function, so you can call it in a gameStart function, like so:
func changeViewControllers() {
presentViewController(GameViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
then call this in your gameStart():
func gameStart() {
changeViewControllers()
//other code
}
//=====================================================================
Alright, I'm going to help you get to another view when you tap your play button, add the following code:
#IBAction func playButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
mainMenuScene.playButtonPressed(sender)
}