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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Any way to pause a game in DBPro?

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Posted: 17th May 2003 07:59
How would we pause a game lets say if the player presses F1 for help during a game?
MasterInsan0
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Posted: 17th May 2003 08:25
I'm just as new as most of the newbies on the newbie board, but my best guess would be to use a wait, sleep, or wait for a certain key command. Like, if you wanted to hit F1, leave the screen there, and hit F1 again to get rid of it, you could paste the sprite or whatever over the top of the screen (not sure how you would go about this, but I'm just suggesting) and then wait for the f1 key again. Then, when the player hits F1 again, the program resumes the loop from where it checked to see if F1 was pressed with deleting the sprite (and possibly sync-ing or something).

Remember, don't think of this as a good opinion...use it as a guide for figuring it out yourself, because I really have no idea how to do it myself.
Danmatsuma
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Posted: 17th May 2003 11:17
That's one way, but another would be to send the program into another loop with it's own sync so you could display an animated menu

Here's one way to do that:



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Posted: 17th May 2003 12:58
Just a random untested idea, but it seems functions hog the code to themselfs, so you could probably write something like:



Usually i would say While True.. but i cant remember if db will accept boolean values used like that so i just used 1 for saftey. In that while loop you could do anything you like too, display a pause screen for example or if you wished a special pause menu

Remember, im just guessing that would work in db, i see no reason why not but just test it to be sure

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Posted: 17th May 2003 13:17
If you wanted to exit from the function, then you could be looking for "ExitFunction".

I suppose all my ideas have been shown already. But this is what I'd do:



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