Making different screens

[galaxified]

How do I make different screens? Like a title screen, play screen, settings screen, etc.

Since it doesn't all go in main.lua, right? I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way, but my idea was to make a different .lua file for each screen, but I'm not sure where to go from there. The screen happens immediately when I call

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require 'examplefile'

but I can't return

So how do I do this? Or is there a different, "standard" way to do it? If so please let me know, thanks

[ReFreezed]

There isn't a standard way to do this. You could have everything in one file (main.lua or elsewhere), or use a system with multiple files. Here's one simple way to do it, and the general idea of handling different screens, in half-pseudo code:

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local screen = "mainmenu"

function love.update(dt)
	if screen == "mainmenu" then
		-- Update main menu stuff.
		if someButtonIsPressed() then
			screen = "ingame"
		end

	elseif screen == "ingame" then
		-- Update in-game stuff.
		if playerIsDead() then
			screen = "mainmenu"
		end
	end
end

function love.draw()
	if screen == "mainmenu" then
		-- Draw main menu.

	elseif screen == "ingame" then
		-- Draw in-game stuff.
	end
end

These "screens" are often called scenes, so you may want to look up scene managing libraries, unless you want to roll your own solution.

[BrotSagtMist]

Yea for the beginning its just fine to stuff it all in the main file.
Instead of having if cases you can also just reassign the function, remember names arent very strict in lua:

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function title()
 lg.print(TITLE)
 if keyboard.IsDown("return") then
  love.update=game
 end
end
function game()
 gamestuff()
end
love.update=title

[pgimeno]

I covered this topic in depth in this post: viewtopic.php?p=194226#p194226

The basic idea is to have every file have its own events, and call them from main.