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Hi
I want to add a pause button to my games
I understand ill need a different function to pause all the animations and another to pause the script, but I know there is a way to stop everything, I know how to stop animations, but the script?
I want the same effect as when you are playing a game and to pause click right button of the mouse to stop everything, so there is a function to stop everything on the flash
How can I do that?
Any ideas?
First and foremost, there is no function that will pause flash. The best way to pause a game is by implementing a game 'state machine'. This basically means that everything in your game is running through a function on the onEnterFrame. When you want to pause the game, you simply set onEnterFrame to null. Any animations might still play until their end, but no code will run and the game will appear to stop.
yup, in older flash versions it could be as easy as
run game:
onEnterFrame=mainGameLoopFn
pause game:
onEnterFrame=gamePausedFn
(in case you want to run some code while the game is paused, otherwise just null the enterframe as our dude in the prison said :) )
Well, then I have to apply that on my next game
How do I set my onEnterFrame to null?
ummm..... onEnterFrame = null; :p
Make sure you've only got the one onEnterFrame though.
Better just to have one boolean IMO.
If(!pause)
{
do everything
}
^thats what I do :D
Just for the input, here's how to stop all animations in your movie using a simple recursive function.
Code:function StopAnimate(target) {
for (var a in target) {
if (typeof (target[a]) == "movieclip") {
target[a].stop();
StopAnimate(target[a]);
}
}
}
StopAnimate(this);
Thanks for your help guys
Now I have good resources to make the "pause" button, thanks !!!
I always put a screen on top of everything, stop the codes and _visible false the duplicated Mcs
All well and good until you have to unpause. Pain in the ass trying to figure out if a movieclip was playing before you paused.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaphuA
Most situations I'd think if the playhead weren't on frame 1 of the animation, then it was probably playing.
this handsome man doesn't believe in most situations ;)
Hi I think I'm doing the same thing as you.
I'm making a game and want it to pause when I press P and unpause when I press U.
This is the code on my background movieclip:
This is the code on my control frame:Code:if (Key.isDown(80)) {
trace("P has been pressed for Pause");
_root.Paused = true;
MovieClip.goPlay = false;
_root.MovieClip.goPlay = false;
this.stopAll();
}
if (Key.isDown(85)) {
if (_root.Paused)
{
trace("U has been pressed for UnPause");
MovieClip.goPlay = true;
_root.MovieClip.goPlay = true;
Timer.goPlay = true;
_root.Timer.goPlay = true;
_root.Paused = false;
}
this.stopAll();
}
But only problem is, it doesn't work... Does anyone have any ideas?Code:MovieClip.prototype.stopAll= function () {
if (goPlay && (play)) {
gotoAndStop(_currentframe);}
else
play();};
I tried that null thing but didn't get any results. I'm using CS3 but actionscript 2.0.
Regards,
Josh
I used both systems, the one for pausing the script and the one for pusing the animation
So now I will pause all my games
Thanks for everything guys and here is the game I releassed
game thread
Hey I know this is a big ask! but I was wondering if you could possibly post the .fla file somewhere? I'm trying to work out how to pause my game as well and I'm pretty amateur in flash, but I'd be able to work it out easily if I could look at how you set it up. :) pease?
hai guyz, i just create a component that can pause almost everything in swf. you can find it at
http://www.flashcomponents.net/compo...component.html
from that link:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spammer
... oops I guess you forgot to mention that- and I was already thinking you were insulting people here with a component because they can´t write actionscript themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/flash_pause_component.html
15 ???
Good look
I prefer to do it my way
If(!pause)
{
do everything
}
Can you elaborate on the above?
please quote next time- so we know what context you are speaking of
here it is used in actionscript:
PHP Code:var pause:Boolean = true;//default state is pause equals true
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){//onEnterFrame loop,-
if (!pause){//put after this curly brace your game loop code
trace("engine runs....");
}
}
button_pauseSwitch.onPress = function(){//here is a button that unpauses or pauses the game
pause=!pause;//switch pause state
}
Haha! I know, it looks weird, but it's actually quite beautiful! It prevents your script from running if the boolean pause is true, since it will only run if pause is false. "do everything" is the content of your main functions, such as this.onEnterFrame and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by flashkid.com
thanks this helps a lot.
pause=!pause
This code made me think, by time based comparison of frames we can store which mc's are static and which are dynamic, and we can play the dynamic one's.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaphuA
This code pauses and unpauses:-
Check the attached fla for the code in action.Code:function StopAnimateStep1(target) {
for (var a in target) {
if (typeof (target[a]) == "movieclip") {
//store mc reference and frame number
mcArray.push([target[a],target[a]._currentframe,"STATIC"]);
StopAnimateStep1(target[a]);
}
}
}
function StopAnimateStep2() {
clearInterval(intervalId);
for(a in mcArray)
{
mcArray[a][0].stop();
//check if the frame has changed, that means its dynamic
if(mcArray[a][1] != mcArray[a][0]._currentframe)
{
mcArray[a][2] = "DYNAMIC";
}
}
gamePauseState = "PAUSED";
}
function StopAnimate(target)
{
//set gamePauseState
gamePauseState = "PROCESSING";
StopAnimateStep1Done = false;
//format of this array
//mcArray = [[mcRef,mcRefInitialFrame,animState]
mcArray = [];
StopAnimateStep1(this);
intervalId = setInterval(StopAnimateStep2,100);
}
function StartAnimate() {
for (var a in mcArray) {
if (mcArray[a][2] == "DYNAMIC") {
mcArray[a][0].play();
}
}
gamePauseState = "NOT_PAUSED";
}
//string var to store the state of pausing
gamePauseState = "NOT_PAUSED";
var keyListener:Object = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
if(gamePauseState == "NOT_PAUSED")
{
StopAnimate(this);
}
else if(gamePauseState == "PAUSED")
{
StartAnimate();
}
}
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);
For Pausing and Unpausing the mc animation including the root, check the new attached file.
One logical problem that remains with this method is that when the script commands a mc to stop on a particular frame from another frame and simultaneously the pause function is called, it will store the mc as 'dynamic', while infact it is 'static' and it was just stopped on a frame.
For example:-
To avoid this situation, use a var as a flag to stop the further execution of the statements in your main game loop, make sure you queue the calling of the pause function at the end of all the statements of the main loop, so that all the action is executed and locked by the flag, and then finally the time check can be done for which mc's are 'dynamic' and which are 'static'.Code:myMc.gotoAndStop(1);
someTimer = 100
onEnterFrame = function()
{
someTimer--;
if(someTime == 0)
{
myMc.gotoAndStop(2);
//simultaneously before 'myMc' was stopped on second
//frame, if pause key is pressed, the function will think this
//mc is 'dynamic' by time comparision, infact it is 'static'
}
}
If you still don't get it, I will post an example.
Ok I will post afterwards in detail, this is getting confusing and buggy.
Ok, so I came to the conclusion that time based method will not be accurate using setInterval, due to which I came up with a method in which you store all mc's frames, let the swf play 1 extra frame, compare with the previous frames of all mc's, and set them back to there previous frame and storing its behaviour as "DYNAMIC", else they will be "STATIC".
The logic for the game loop code though has to be the same as I had explained earlier for avoiding that situaton.
It would really help if someone can test this out. I have attached the swf and fla file with comments so that its easier to implement.
Is this thread still alive?
WOOOW
I doubt it, somehow its very uncoordinated: everyone posts their own kind of reply to the extremely vague and almost pointless question.
Sad that no one actually saw my last post, could have actually helped alot, anyway let this die off as usual.
That seems like a really CPU heavy function to stop a couple of movie clips, adit. :p
Agreed, if lot of mc's will be present probably it will hang the game, but for most games with less number of mc's (one I just tested out) it worked well. :)
Edit: Small error in previous attachment, now fixed.
Edit2: Also thought I will mention that not necessarily you have to pause the game using this, thanks to SaphuA's format, you can target a particular mc to be brought to a stand still, including its child mc's, so now you can easily stop a particular mc.
For example, Sub-Zero hits Liu Kang with the ice, so it will be easy to show him frozen while the collision can still be checked for an uppercut ;)
i made up a little FLA file then but how do i upload it?
well... here?
Attachment 69549PHP Code:Uh... wait a tick... thats wrong isn't it?
sasuke82 made 2 posts. wow. what a record???
i bet the other 81 numbers was him switching accounts because he kept getting kicked out!
Kind of a waste to bump a year old topic to attack a spammer and post an fla that doesn't really get the job done...
true.... true... but the fla is an example like somebody wanted...