Hello Dear Robotleg useers.

Have patience with me on this one as I'm sure the answer is obvious : I seem not to be able to figure out why the excellent solution by Stray for restarting a game using root view doesn't work for me. Instead I get a black background i.e the background color of the swf.

Code:

` public class Application extends Sprite {

    private var _context:ApplicationContext;
    public var  _contextView:Sprite;
    protected const PAUSE_FRAME_COUNT:uint=25;
    protected var frameCount:uint;


    public function Application() {


        createNewContext();
    }

    protected function listenForRestart():void {
        trace("READY");
        _contextView.addEventListener(GameStatusEvent.GAME_RESTARTED, restartHandler);
    }

    protected function restartHandler(e:GameStatusEvent):void {
        removeChild(_contextView);
        _contextView=null;
        _context=null;
        restartAfterPause();
    }

    protected function restartAfterPause():void {
        frameCount=0;
        addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrameHandler);
    }

    protected function enterFrameHandler(e:Event):void {
        frameCount++;
        if (frameCount > PAUSE_FRAME_COUNT) {
            removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrameHandler);
            createNewContext();
        }
    }

    protected function createNewContext():void {
        _contextView=new Sprite();
        addChild(_contextView);
        _context=new ApplicationContext(_contextView);
        listenForRestart();
    }
}

} `

///

Hmm I noticed that my ApplicationContext is no longer firing its startup() method but it was when I was using

 _context=new ApplicationContext(this);

but now I'm using

_context=new ApplicationContext(_contextView)

Hmm is this related to my PrepViewCommand and

        mediatorMap.mapView(Application, ApplicationMediator);
        mediatorMap.createMediator(contextView);

hmmm

OK So I managed to get the startup of ApplicationContext to fire again by just adding

        if (stage) createNewContext()
        else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, createNewContext);

But my screen is still blank...