Chapbook Modal Text Window strategy?

Authoring Twine
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My new, much better, and working (i think) solution.

  1. Add a “menu” tag to each MENU/INVENTORY passage.

  2. Add a link to inventory/menu at header.
    Place this code in vars section: config.header.center :"{link to: Inventory, label: 'Inventory'}"

  3. Paste this code in JavaScript section of story

comesFromMenu = function (){
      if (trail.length>1){
          if (engine.story.passageNamed(trail[trail.length-2]).tags.includes("menu")){
              return true;
          }else{
              return false;
        }
  } else {
        return undefined;  
  }
  };

  get_last_ingame_passage =function(){
   let trail_clone=Object.assign([],trail);
   let rtrail=trail_clone.reverse(); 
   let result = rtrail.find(el => !engine.story.passageNamed(el).tags.includes("menu"));
   return result;
  }
  1. At the bottom of the inventory/menu, or wherein you want to insert your link back to ingame, paste the following:
[JavaScript]
engine.state.set("last_ingame_passage",get_last_ingame_passage());
[continue]
{link to: last_ingame_passage, label: 'Continue'}
  1. UPDATE:
    In order to avoid (for example) the same vars been incremented again when you return from the inventory/menu passage/s to the last ingame passage, you must express that condition at vars section:

strength (comesFromMenu() != true): strength+ 1

You can also perform those operations inside a javascript tag in any passage:

[JavaScript]
if (!comesFromMenu()) { 
strength = strength +1; 
}
[continue]
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