Pause Menu

What's the best way to pause all the action and have a menu pop up that can be controlled with the arrow keys (which are the same keys the player uses to control the character)?

I had it just setting the game's speed to 0, which works for a really simple pause function, but that affects everything, which means no menu.

And if I make a whole new layout for the pause menu that means I have to save the state of the level and then re-load it, and it means I can't have the level in the background of the pause menu.

Help me out?

I believe I have exactly what you need. Hold on for a few moments while I prepare and upload the .cap.

Here you go: rapidshare.com/files/1918723111/PauseMenu.cap

-You can move the 2 frame animated block around the screen with the arrow keys.

-When you press spacebar, the block's animation stops and the arrow keys can no longer move the block around.

-Once paused, the arrow keys will only control the pause menu.

-Press spacebar again to exit back to gameplay.

-There is XBOX 360 control support in there as well.

Note: There is a tiny bug where if you stop on item 2 and exit, then try to pause again, you'll have to tap the pause key (spacebar) twice. This doesn't happen with the 360 controller. It's a minor thing that you'll probably figure out why it's doing that by examining the event codes. I'll look deeper into it when I get a chance.

Note 2: The event code is a beast and there may be simpler ways to do this :-) Just giving you a fair warning.

Thanks! This should help a lot. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Wait, my version of Construct Classic is up to date, but when I try to open the .cap it says it's from a newer version of CC.

That's very weird, Mongoose. I'm using 2.0.

Can anyone else whose downloaded it tell us if they've experience this issue?

Mine says it's 1.2 and that's what I got from this site. When it said it was from a newer version, I went and re-downloaded and it was still 1.2.

Is 2.0 listed somewhere else?

This should be where to get CC 2.0

scirra.com/forum/topic48884.html

Hey Mongoose,

So how did you make out with this?

Hey Mr miller jsut curious have you found out how to do this in C2 yet.

Hi, Dragonblade.

Sorry, I didn't see your post before for some reason... I'm not too deep into C2 yet, but from my little tinkerings with C2 I get the impression that the event code for this may be similar. Of course, I'd hope it's not nearly as complex :-)