How to detect when the game is paused by code

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#1

Is there any way to know by code when the game is paused?

#2

what do you mean paused, you want to create a pause menu in the game and don’t know how to detect it?

#3

detect it by code

#4

your own made pause menu?

#5

If you want to know whether the timeline is moving or not, you can use

project.timeline._playing

It should be equal to true if the timeline is playing, and false if the timeline was paused by “stop()”

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#6

assuming you made a pause button, you now need a boolean (true/false). make a variable called paused and set it to false. when the button is pressed, toggle the boolean by setting it to the opposite (for example, paused = !paused;).

the game should only run if paused is false. you can use an if statement to check for this.

note: this may not work depending the game’s complexity and how well you coded your game. if you code your game well and use object-oriented programming, it will be a lot easier. if you leave a lot of bits of code in many clips and scripts, it will probably take more than just checking a boolean.

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