Prevent game from unpausing when I press "ui_accept" during pause menu

martynbiz

I have the following code in my pause menu script to pause the game when the menu is displayed:

get_tree().paused = true

However, as I toggle between screens within the pause menu by using the "ui_accept" input, it unpauses the game in the background even while the menu is still showing. How do I not unpause the game with this input. I don't recall ever telling Godot, unless this is default behaviour. How can I fix/prevent this and unpause the game by my choosing?

DaveTheCoder

Interesting. I'm working on a game that's strictly mouse/touch input. I don't use keyboard input for anything. I just tried pressing the Enter key (one of the input actions mapped to "ui_accept") while the game is paused, and it unpaused it. So it must be default behavior.

To prevent this, maybe you could add your own code that handles a "ui_accept" action, and does nothing if the game is paused. I'll try that and see if it works, and post the result here.

cybereality

Just set you own input mapping. I've never used the default ones for anything (just don't delete them, cause they are used in the editor).

martynbiz

I don't want to change ai_accept as even in the pause menu, I use it for selecting settings while the game is running (e.g. change match tactics in a soccer game). So, for example, removing enter key from ui_accept would perhaps solve the issue of preventing unpausing, but would mean that I can't then use the enter key for selecting items in the pause menu.

cybereality

I just tested it, and I don't see any issue with pausing and unpausing, even when pressing the enter key. I would suspect there is some bug in your code. Maybe do a global search for "get_tree().paused" (Control + Shift + F) and see if there is some other script that is inadvertently changing the pause state.

DaveTheCoder

I found that in my game, the reason that pressing the Enter key was pausing/unpausing the game was that it was causing my onscreen pause-button to be pressed. I solved that by setting the button's focus_mode property to Control.FOCUS_NONE.