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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How do we pause a game in DBPro?

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Posted: 17th May 2003 09:48
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If during game play a player presses a key for help (lets say F1), how do we make the game pause? We can't use the SLEEP or WAIT command since both require a time parameter. Anybody?
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Scorpyo
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Posted: 17th May 2003 10:51
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SUSPEND FOR KEY
This command will pause the program from running until a key is pressed. To
detect for a specific key, please refer to the INKEY$ or SCANCODE commands
found in the Input Command Set.

SYNTAX
SUSPEND FOR KEY
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Kangaroo2
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Posted: 17th May 2003 10:57 Edited at: 17th May 2003 10:59
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Suspend for key will do it, but won't stop the timer



Fiddle about with something like that

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OzBot
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Posted: 17th May 2003 11:28
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Or you can use DO and LOOP this way you can have some animation playing while it is paused.. then when you press f1 again it exits the pause loop. Use inconjuction with Kangaroo2 method for holding the timer..
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Posted: 17th May 2003 21:35
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how do I get to the code snippet...I clicked on it but nothing happened...

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David T
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Posted: 17th May 2003 21:44
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The snippet tags only work in IE I think.

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thanks all. I'll give it a try.

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Kangaroo2
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Posted: 18th May 2003 01:29
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Sorry - click on the source button below this post instead

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