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[renno]

I want this:

When i push the space bar, the game pauses. If i push the space bar again, the game quits pause mode.

[McCoy]

Take a look at the default options menu (the one that shows up when pressing ESC). The game pauses. So, how could it be done? Just make a window with an static saying PAUSE or something like that, and load it in SystemExclusive mode when the space key is pressed, and unload it when it's pressed again. Just taking a look at the options menu code and the game.script you could do it pretty easily.

[odnorf]

Ok... I wanted to do that for my game too anyway, so I did it earlier that I have planned...
Here it is:

I am assuming that you have used the wme_Demo as a reference/template for your game

find in the game.script the code

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on "Keypress"
{
.......
.......
}
And put inside that code the following code:

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 // on  space, pause the game
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_SPACE || Keyboard.Printable==false)
  {
    WinCaption.Visible = false;
    var WinPause = Game.LoadWindow("interface\system\pause.window");
    WinPause.Center();
    //the GoSystemExclusive pauses everything except the loaded window
    WinPause.GoSystemExclusive();
    Game.UnloadObject(WinPause);
  }

OK... now all we need is to create the pause.window and ofcourse it's script, pause.script

Go to interface/system directory and create those two files:

pause.window

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WINDOW
{
  WIDTH = 100
  HEIGHT = 100
  NAME = "pause"

  SCRIPT = "interface\system\pause.script"
}

pause.script

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#include "scripts\base.inc"
#include "scripts\keys.inc"

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "Keypress"
{
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_SPACE){
    self.Close();
  }
}
That's it! Ofcourse you could add more things to make it better. For example you could load an image in the window that says something "game is paused, press space to return" etc

EDIT: Ofcouse what I did was the same as McCoy suggested, but I think that a "ready" code might be simplier to understand

[McCoy]

Oh, no problem I'm not jealous or something like that... but remember... I WAS THE FIRST WHO SUGGESTED THE WAY OF DOING IT! MUAHAHAHAH   . I'm just kidding. Well, it was almost 5AM and I wasn't in the mood of coding anything  , so thanks for doing what I must have done at it's moment   .

[Luca Candela]

For me this method don't works... when I press the space bar the first time the game freezes and the second space bar stroke don't give back the focus to the game... something is wrong with this!

[odnorf]

  I have done that and it works fine.   It's in my project now.

I can't test it right now but the code looks ok.
Althought there is a little not-important mistake

The line
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_SPACE || Keyboard.Printable==false)
should be
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_SPACE && Keyboard.Printable==false)

Are you using the latest version (1.1 build033) of wme?

Mnemonic, can you please take a look at it. It would be funny to find that I have done a mistake after 2,5 months.  

[Mnemonic]

I can't test it right now, but the code seems to be ok. I'll test it in the evening (CET :-)

[odnorf]

I just installed WME here and put the pause code into the wme_demo project and it works just fine.