Pausing Game

[whopunk123]

Hi

When I pause the game with to escape key I would text to come up saying "GAME PAUSED" I can do this but it only stays up for like 1 sec and I want it to stay up till the users presses the escape key again

Heres my code so far:

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if key == 'escape' then
      love.graphics.print("THE GAME IS PAUSED", 10, 250, 0, 2, 2)
   end

Thanks

[Nixola]

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--in Keypressed
if key == 'escape' then
  somevariable = not somevariable  --toggles the variable between true and false
end

--in love.draw()
  if somevariable == true then 
    love.graphics.print('THE GAME IS PAUSED', 10, 250, whatever
  end

[whopunk123]

Thanks works great

[coffee]

Thanks works great

When you understand well the callback basics of LOVE and how to update and draw things all will be easier

https://love2d.org/wiki/Tutorial:Callback_Functions

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function love.load()
	pause = false
end

function love.update(dt)
	function love.keypressed(key, unicode)
		if key == 'p' then pause = not pause end
	end
end

function love.draw()
	if pause then love.graphics.print("Game is paused",0,0) else 
	love.graphics.print("Game is running",0,0) end
end

[bartbes]

I would strongly suggest against using an else like that, wrapping your entire function in an if statement because you want to pause seems highly invasive, it's better to just return from the if case.

[MarekkPie]

I would strongly suggest against using an else like that, wrapping your entire function in an if statement because you want to pause seems highly invasive, it's better to just return from the if case.

AKA

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function love.draw()
    if pause then love.graphics.print("Game Paused", 0, 0) return end
    -- Unpaused code
end

[tentus]

Also, this:

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function love.update(dt)
   function love.keypressed(key, unicode)
      if key == 'p' then pause = not pause end
   end
end

is wrong. Do it like this:

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function love.update(dt)
   -- do stuff
end
function love.keypressed(key, unicode)
   if key == 'p' then pause = not pause end
end