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kirtn14
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can anyone please tell me how i can pause my app so nothing works then continue playing it again? thanks

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Posted: 23rd Oct 2011 20:27
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One way would be



Is one way of doing it. Esentialy all you have to do is "jump" out of the "main loop" using Gosub and then Return to get back in

Hope it helps

Srry about my english im from sweeden
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Steve Ancell
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2011 21:31 Edited at: 23rd Oct 2011 21:35
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Or, you could do this.

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thasnks may i ask where i can find all these code they must origionate from somewhere?

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many thanks you have answers 2 of my questions in one code

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Quote: "may i ask where i can find all these code they must origionate from somewhere?"


My code comes from many years of my programming hobby. The more you practice, the more you learn.

The best way to learn, try to think of each task in a program as a module rather than as individual commands.
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i treid using the code you gave me but iy only pauses the counter not the entire game is that meant to happen?

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Posted: 24th Oct 2011 16:08 Edited at: 24th Oct 2011 16:09
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Hey kirtn14,

when you're pausing the game, the main idea is to stop calling the portion of your code that does the game itself, like the update loop, or whatever.

So, if you took Steve's code snipet, you should use the "pause" variable to check if you should call the main loop (the game itself) or not.

Where he added the:

//Update Game Logic.
if pause = 0
counter = counter + 1
endif

means that this *if* will be true, and run the code inside it only when the game is *not* paused. In other words, your game logic, like update position, draw sprites, etc, should be inside it.

You could use game states to accomplish something similar, but try this first, and see if it works.

I hope it helps

Cheers

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Steve Ancell
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Thankyou MobileCreator, that's a very good way of explaining my code in a simple and easy to understand way.
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Thanks! Glad you didn't think I've hijacked your answer

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its really onnoying i feel like what your saying should make sense but no matter how much i read it it doesnt ive read everything inthe instructions and i still cant pause my game its so frustrating i tried making the game sleep but it only sleeps for a little while and cant be changed anyother way

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Posted: 25th Oct 2011 00:30 Edited at: 25th Oct 2011 00:31
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@kirtn14: Just keep experimenting and don't give up, there may be a bit of a learning curve but you will be OK.

@MobileCreator: I'm glad you helped, I'm OK-ish at doing things but not as good at explaining them.
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Attached is a small example project of how pausing might be done.

As you'll see from the example I have to manually stop animated sprites but other objects such as physics sprites can be stopped by setting the "update" time to zero.

Have a look and see if it helps you understand a little. If you have any questions please ask!

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@baxslash:
I knew that sprites and stuff would also need to be dealt with, but thanks for pointing that out. You have just provided a very useful bit of info there, something that I obviously overlooked in my example. Now I'm off to write 500 lines to learn my lesson. LOL
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Quote: "I knew that sprites and stuff would also need to be dealt with, but thanks for pointing that out. You have just provided a very useful bit of info there, something that I obviously overlooked in my example."

To be honest it's not something I'd dealt with yet so I took a look to see what the issues were and found that contrary to what I expected "Update" does not control animated sprites...

Quote: "Now I'm off to write 500 lines to learn my lesson."

Hee, "I must remember the sync sequence" x500

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Quote: "Hee, "I must remember the sync sequence" x500"


I like your sense of humour baxslash, brilliant!. LOL
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kirtn14, Do you mean that you want to pause the game so that you can use the phone it's running on to do other stuff, then go back to the game and continue where you paused it? I don't think that is doable yet.

If you mean to pause the game, while still running it, you'll have to do as sugested here. The program never stops, but you can make it run in circles waiting for you to let it run the game logic again.

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thanks soooooo much i have it working now ))) thanks

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omg i think ive broken the pause it wont work anymore ive tried both of your sujestions again and they wont work. which raw key number if the space bar?

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I can't remember but you can check by adding this in your loop:
Print(str(getRawLastPressed()))

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Thanks

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