Pause button in a flash game

[Mark Aged]

How do you go about making a pause button? I have an idea of how to make one for my game, but I want to know how you guys do it, so I can maybe do something better then setting all variables that control movement to 0, or whatever.

[Matt]

Put an if statement around all your code that says something like if(paused!=true){
Then have a button outside of that that toggles paused to true or false.

[truimagz]

or better yet create a pause function that kills your game loop.

something like


function runGame ( Void ) : Void {

this.onEnterFrame = function ( ) {

///game code
}

}


function pauseGame ( Void ) : Void {

delete this.onEnterFrame;

//remove mouse listeners
//remove event listeners

};

[magcius]

I do something like this:


function mainUpdate():Void {
// put all your onEnterFrame code in here.
}

function pauseGame():Void {
this.onEnterFrame = mainUpdate;
}

function resumeGame():Void {
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}


This way you're not creating, populating, and destroying anonymous code blocks which can take time in AVM1.

If this is AS3, do something like this:


function mainUpdate():void {
// same thing
}

function pauseGame():void {
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, mainUpdate);
}

function resumeGame():void {
this.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, mainUpdate);
}

[Mark Aged]

Thanks for the ideas guys, incredibly helpful.