At the beginning of my app I have a global variable gameData which is declared and instantiated as:

GameData gameData = GameData();

Later I want to clear the gameData variable and re-instantiate/reset the variable with a clean instance of GameData. I do this by calling a function:

void ResetGameData() {
  gameData = new GameData();
} 

But that's not clearing the gameData variable. All the old values are remaining. Is there a better way of doing this?

CodePudding user response：

It seems like your approach should work.

If you're building your UI based off of GameData, you will need to call setState() or notifyListeners() to rebuild everything.

CodePudding user response：

The issue was I was instantiating a class within a class, and that syntax was incorrect so the sub-class was retaining its previous data. The rest of the variable was re-instantiated correctly.