corona storyboard dispatch event error

Question

I am getting the below error in corona simulator. Nothing has changed in my files that I know of. ( I have included the main.lua code and the menuMain.lua code.) If you have any ideas on what might be causing this would be appricated! =) thanks.

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Corona Simulator Runtime Error File: ? Attempt to call method 'dispatchEvent' (a nil value) stack traceback: [c] in function 'dispatchEvent' ? in funciton gotoScene ...dwegrecki/main.lua:16 in main chunck

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-- main.lua

-- Hide Status Bar
display.setStatusBar(display.HiddenStatusBar)

-- require controller module
local storyboard = require "storyboard"

-- load first screen
storyboard.gotoScene( "menuMain" )

-- menuMain.lua

local storyboard = require( "storyboard" )
local scene = storyboard.newScene()

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-- BEGINNING OF IMPLEMENTATION
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    local mainBg
    local titleIcon
    local startBtn
    local aboutBtn
    local onStartBtnTouch = {}
    local scene = {}


    -- Touch event listener for startBtn
local function onStartBtnTouch( self, event )
        if event.phase == "began" then
        storyboard.gotoScene( "menuLevel", "fade", 400  )
            return true
        end
end

    -- Touch event listener for cerditsBtn
local function onCreditsBtnTouch( self, event )
        if event.phase == "began" then
        storyboard.gotoScene( "zerocredits", "fade", 400  )
            return true 
        end
end

-- Called when the scene's view does not exist:
function scene:createScene( event )
    local screenGroup = self.view

    mainBg = display.newImage('bg.png')
    titleBg = display.newImage('title.png', 0, 100)
    playBtn = display.newImage('playBtn.png', 200, 240)
    creditsBtn = display.newImage('creditsBtn.png', 200, 290)
    titleView = display.newGroup(titleBg, playBtn, creditsBtn)

    screenGroup:insert( titleBg, playBtn, creditsBtn )

    playBtn.touch = onStartBtnTouch
    creditsBtn.touch = onCreditsBtnTouch

end

-- Called immediately after scene has moved onscreen:
function scene:enterScene( event )
    print( "1: enterScene event" )

    -- remove previous scene's view
    storyboard.purgeScene( "LevelMenu" )
    storyboard.purgeScene( "credits" )
    storyboard.purgeScene("main")

end

-- Called when scene is about to move offscreen:
function scene:exitScene( event )
    print( "1: exitScene event" )

    -- remove touch listener for image
    mainBg:removeEventListener( "touch", mainBg )
end

-- Called prior to the removal of scene's "view" (display group)
function scene:destroyScene( event )
    print( "((destroying scene 1's view))" )
end

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-- END OF IMPLEMENTATION
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scene:addEventListener( "createScene", scene )
scene:addEventListener( "enterScene", scene )
scene:addEventListener( "exitScene", scene )
scene:addEventListener( "destroyScene", scene )

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return scene

Answer 1

i recreate same project like your's and i'm getting an error on local scene = {} why did you make the variable scene a table ?