GUI popupmodal and game pause (solved)

[JpSoft]

Im sorry, but i was unable to solve this by myself. Adding some features to the game, i decided add a custom GUI when the player pauses the game called gCustomPause  which have visible set to popupmodal.

So, at Keypress, when players press"P" i add gCustomPause.Visible = True;

But, even when the game do not process clicks or keyboard inputs and all animations stopped (only the button in the GUI to close it responds) the game still is working; The game still works in the background, and i can see that the clock is still runing (internal clock routines are in the RepExec section)

But, if i change the gCustomPause.Visible = True for Display ("Pause, press any key to continue...") everything in the game stop (even the RepExec routines)

How i can obtain that when i call the gCustomPause? I check all the manual and the forums and i was unable to find something similar. And its supposed that a popup GUI pauses the game when you call it from a script.

Thanks for any help.

JpSoft

[SSH]

Try calling PauseGame ()?

[JpSoft]

Try calling PauseGame ()?

It do not work. It have the same effects as the popup GUI 

Im trying to create a function to pause the game with noloopcheck but I'm a little confused on how it works.

function noloopcheck gamepause();
{
bool finish_pause;  // Determines if the pause finish or not

finish_pause = false;

while (gCustomPause.Visible == false)
  {
  if (gCustomPause.Visible == false) finish_pause = true;
  }
}

This works to stop the game processing events and still keeps the animation in the gCustomPause, but nothing happens when you click the button to close the GUI (i guess because the game is in a loop)

Any help with this?

JpSoft

[monkey0506]

AFAIK repeatedly_execute shouldn't be run during blocking events anyway, but you could try encasing your rep_ex function inside this condition:

Code: ags

if (IsGamePaused() == 0) {
  // ...
}

This is regarding using PauseGame because you shouldn't need a custom function such as this. If need be it may be made easier like this:

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute() {
  if (gCustomPause.Visible) PauseGame();
  else UnPauseGame();
  if (IsGamePaused() == 0) {
    // stuff
  }
}

Or even just by-pass the pausing step and use:

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute() {
  if (gCustomPause.Visible == false) {
    // stuff
  }
}

This last code-snippet relies on AGS's built-in system of pausing while pop-up modal GUIs are shown, but all of them should have the same effect.

[JpSoft]

AFAIK repeatedly_execute shouldn't be run during blocking events anyway, but you could try encasing your rep_ex function inside this condition:

Code: ags

if (IsGamePaused() == 0) {
  // ...
}

Rep_exec works even if the game is paused, i have it very clear now (at least, when the game is paused using GamePause() or any popup GUI) But all the game engine stops totally  with a single "Display" call.

I will try encasing the rep_exec; that section have +1000 lines of code and i must check if there are anything i want just continue working even when the players call a pause.

Thanks for the idea.

Jp

[JpSoft]

All the game engine works with this sentence:

in Rep_Exec:

second_loops++;
if (second_loops == 39) seconds++;

I fixed the trouble just adding this

if (iIsGamePaused == 0) second_loops++;

Thanks monkey for your colaboration. I were very stuck with this since i believed that the popup GUIs pauses ALL the game

Jp