[SOLVED] How to disable gPanel GUI in one particular room

[Rik_Vargard]

Hello!

All right I'm out of options and tries:

All I want is to not be able to either click the ESC key to have the gPanel GUI appear in a room (main title screen room).

I tried to disable the ESC key in that room, or to disable the gPanel GUI so when pressing ESC nothing would happen.

The closest I got was making the Visible to false in repExec but of course it won't work because it shows up for like a millisecond then is invisible again

I feel it's just out there but I can't find the solution.

[Crimson Wizard]

I tried to disable the ESC key in that room, or to disable the gPanel GUI so when pressing ESC nothing would happen.

Please explain in detail what did you do?

[Rik_Vargard]

Hi, thanks for the reply!

Well I tried lot
The idea is that the player wouldn't be able to open gPanel by pressing the ESC key in my first room (with "new" - "load" - "quit")

Some things I tried that i remember are:

gPanel.Visible = false;

GuiOff(3); (old?)

gPanel.Transparency = 100;

or like :
(example)

Code: ags

if(keycode ==eKeyEscape)
{
// diffrent tries like
gPanel.Transparency = 100;
//or
gPanel.Visible = false;
}

The thing I want to avoid is this :

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[eri0o]

The esc key is probably something that's in your global script, isn't it?

Also your images aren't loading for me.

[Crimson Wizard]

The idea is that the player wouldn't be able to open gPanel by pressing the ESC key in my first room (with "new" - "load" - "quit")

Well, you have a command somewhere that performs that action by ESC key press. You need to find it in your script, and add a condition that player.Room is not certain room.

[Rik_Vargard]

Is this working for the image?

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or

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https://i.ibb.co/C115T1s/problem.jpg

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And yes I found this in globalcript in game_start :

initialize_control_panel();

But I don't know how to use it in a room if it's even possible

I also tried close_gui(gPanel); on room load

Well, you have a command somewhere that performs that action by ESC key press. You need to find it in your script, and add a condition that player.Room is not certain room.

Yes I've been looking for that too

I tried

Code: ags

if (keycode == eKeyEscape)
  {
   close_gui(gPanel);
  }

But keycode is undefined symbol error

[Crimson Wizard]

I tried

Code: ags

if (keycode == eKeyEscape)
  {
   close_gui(gPanel);
  }

Your approach is wrong. You want to prevent certain action from happening, and trying to solve that by making a second action countering the first.
Instead you should find a way to not do the first action at all. You need to find where the panel is opened with Escape key, and add a condition there.



To elaborate a little more, suppose you have something like this in GlobalScript somewhere:

Code: ags

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
{
    if (keycode == eKeyEscape)
    {
         open_gui(gPanel);
    }
}

Then you may change this to:

Code: ags

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
{
    if (keycode == eKeyEscape)
    {
         if (player.Room != 1) // don't do if the room is 1
         {
              open_gui(gPanel);
         }
    }
}

Alternatively, if you do not want to use room numbers, you may set up Custom Properties for your rooms, and make a property that tells if gPanel is allowed or not, and check that instead.

[Rik_Vargard]

Okkk  ok ok... phew... I finally got it.

I went to add your first part of the code in the global script, and found out it's already there, with all other keycode stuff.
Good thing I backed up the game because I messed it up while trying, especially since I needed the same thing for other rooms.

So in fact it all happens in the global script and not the rooms (like eri0o mentioned before, in fact - thanks for that!) . Or perhaps with custom properties ( thanks for the link) which is a whole new world to me, for another day! Baby steps eh...

Now I have this :

Code: ags

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
{
    if (keycode == eKeyEscape)
    {
// all other if stuff
        else if (player.Room == 1 || player.Room == 9 || player.Room == 2) 
         {
          close_gui(gPanel);
         }
        else open_gui(gPanel); 
    }
}

Thanks to this I now learned != , || , && and mostly how to use Keycode . 

Well, thank you SO much for everything!!

[Khris]

You can do this instead:

Code: ags

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
{
    if (keycode == eKeyEscape) {
      if (player.Room >= 3 && player.Room != 9) open_gui(gPanel);
      else close_gui(gPanel);
    }
}

edit: I thought calling close_gui isn't required but realized it absolutely is, so this alternate way is kind of pointless. Feel free to ignore this post 

[Rik_Vargard]

 

Well I do have to thank you for taking the time to think about it && to reply!

I'm laughing but I'm also serious about it.

Cheers and Thanks!!