Using same button/command to different events

I have tried to learn the program myself as best as possible without asking any help. But now I have run into a same problem so many times that I really need to ask some.

So the problem is very simple actually:

I would like to know how to, for example turn something on and off with a same command. For example when pressin "escape", "pause menu" is set to "visible". And when pressing "escape" again, it's set to "invisible".

I made this simple example file if someone is kind enough to show how it works:

boxtest.cap

So in this example file there is a blue box. Now when You press a "Enter" the blue box is set to visible. So what I wold like to happen is when You press "Enter" again, the blue box is set to "invisible".

And so that this keeps on going everytime when pressin "Enter", like in a "pause menu" case.

Thanks

Jonez

Here is your amended .cap. Hope it's what you want.

Event shown below:

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34306693/visibilty_toggle.png" border="0">

zen

This works. Thank You.

Now I have to figure out how to make it work with more complicated stuff like sounds and etc.

But now that I have somekind of a start It shouldnt be too hard. Thanks again

The approach I use is to have a private variable for the menu, which is toggled with the key.

on key enter pressed - set object.value('menu') to 1 - object.value('menu')

Now with this you can have event stacked under each value.

object.value('menu') = 0

        -make box invisible

        -enable player movement

        -disable mouse

        -disable mouse

        -disable menu events

        -disable etc

object.value('menu') = 1

        -make box visible

        -disable player movement

        -enable mouse

        -run menu events

        -etc

I actually made an example of this the other day

dl.dropbox.com/u/1487524/Scirra/setPositionMenuExample.cap

i'm always using same method as Steven

ie.

+ MouseKeyboard: Key Space is down
-> Sprite: Add 1 to 'do_stuff'

+ Sprite: Value 'do_stuff' Equal to 0
-> "do something"
+ Sprite: Value 'do_stuff' Equal to 1
-> "do something else"
+ Sprite: Value 'do_stuff' Equal to 2
-> Sprite: Set 'do_stuff' to 0