Sliders get focused, help!

Alright, so in my game you control your character (or the camera) with keys.

But, in cheat mode or god mode (where you play the ecosim) you have some sliders controlling the weather.

As i change a slider, and then continue, for example, running (W key) the input doesnt work and the slider becomes focused, as in this screen:

I was looking for an action for the slider "stop focusing" or something, which the Buttons have, but nothing...

Is there a way to prevent this?

Not really sure why it doesn't have an unfocus. But a way to workaround it, which is not pretty, but works is to make a button offscreen, and in the "On slider changed" you add "Set focus button " and then "Unfocus button"

You can make your own with events fairly easily...with custom/fitting graphics too.

You can make your own with events fairly easily...with custom/fitting graphics too.

Making your own is the way to go IMO. The built in one has problems as you describe here, and also never really fit with your game - they just don't look cool.

There are some good tutorials on the forums to help you out if you need - jus search sliders or something like that....

Try these tutorial

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1248/a ... om-sprites

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/715/ho ... e-a-slider

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1217/c ... -or-slider

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1064/s ... slider-bar

There's a plugin available that allows you to add css style sheets to the project- then you can style the slider however you want, as well as disabling the focused border thing..

Not really sure why it doesn't have an unfocus. But a way to workaround it, which is not pretty, but works is to make a button offscreen, and in the "On slider changed" you add "Set focus button " and then "Unfocus button"

It worked

Since i'm too lazy to work on my own sliders/buttons, i'll stick with this workaround, and in future i'll replace them with something better.