Pausing the Game

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• OZApps Guru

  May 2013

  @a00za, generally games are written with a central main loop that runs the game. Apart from this some might use an ENTER_FRAME, some a timer. Now the question is how are your running your game, based on that you could get advice on how to pause your game.

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  May 2013

  basically you have to pause all timers luckily you can use Timer.pauseAll() for this, you need to pause all tweens if you are using that, stop all enterFrame events and block all touches little bit hard if you are trying this first time
  
  

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• loucsam Member

  May 2013

  You could also potentially use a boolean variable. Then in all the code where stuff happens, test this variable. You'll have to decide whether or not to also remove listeners etc. depends on what is going on in your game.
  
  Eg. at game start,
  game_paused = false
  
  someone clicks pause btn:
  game_paused = true
  
  in main code where stuff happens:
  
  if not game_paused then
  
  do your stuff here
  
  end

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