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Hi.
I'm currently in the works of making a pretty GUI-heavy game with NoesisGUI for Unity. I've got the basics down, but I'm still wondering how to best switch between different menus/submenus in the game.

Say, for instance, I have a Main Menu, consisting of multiple buttons. The Settings-button opens the Settings-menu, and the Profile-button opens the Profile-menu, etc. Each submenu (Profile, Settings, etc.) also has buttons to go back to the Main Menu, as well as to other specific menu-screens.

So my questions is: How would one go about to best implement switching between menus/views taking up the whole screen with NoesisGUI in Unity?
What should the triggered Button-click do? Switch to a separate .xaml-file? Enable/disable buttons (would be a lot of buttons to handle, so maybe enabling/disabling menu-states)?

Hope it's not too much of a silly questions, but I'm kind of unsure of how to go about this.
Thanks!

There could be many alternatives, I will expose a simple one.

To manage the entire UI you have a master xaml where different panels are loaded and presented in a root container.
You will have each menu panel defined in a different xaml, probably a custom user control. To load a new panel you can call NoesisGUISystem.LoadXaml<T>, or if using user controls, you can directly create a new instance of the user control.
When a menu button is clicked:
To enhance the user experience, you can define animations to transition between menus panels. To do this, you will need a root container that permits adding more than one child, for example, a Canvas or a Grid.

Is this what you are looking for?

By the way, our SamplesGallery, whose source is included in the SDK, is organized that way.

Thanks!
I'll start working on it from the setup in the ControlGallery-sample. Seems to be a good way of doing it

We are working in a sample showing a minimal application with several screens and transitions. I think this sample will be a lot easier to study that our Browser.