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AppGameKit Classic Chat / How to pause a game ? is there a function which can suspend the app?

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halley
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I want to pause the game,so I didn't update the state of the sprite, but sprite still playing. How to do ?

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Posted: 27th Dec 2011 13:42 Edited at: 27th Dec 2011 13:44
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There is no one command for this. You have to stop any physics simulation by calling stepPhysics(0) and then put a pause menu in at a smaller depth value so it appears in front of your game sprites.

Edit: forgot to say that you'll have to set the animated sprite frame manually to stop it playing.

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Posted: 27th Dec 2011 13:59
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and you cannot pause any Particle effect, it keeps on playing
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halley
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@Baxslash, I see. I think there are a lot of work to do ,because there are thousands of sprites to stop.

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halley
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@bjadams: it's a bad news for me ,I think.

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You could put a request in for a new enhancement "setSpritesPlaying(onOff)"

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Another option would be not to Sync()

But I don't know if touch would still keep working
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MrValentine
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So this is irrelavent whether on T1 or T2?

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halley
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I am using Tier2.

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LeeBamber
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The trick with a general 'pause' command, is that you would pause everything, even the interactions that overlay the paused game you wanted to use. Normally pause is engineered in code, but let me know if there are gaps in what you can individually pause. My understanding is that you can pause everything on a one by one basis.

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Lee you cannot pause/freeze the particle system in any way.
Anything else is pausable
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