So. If you are using the mouse in your game. When pausing, the mouse will copy the cursor img, and deactivate the mouse when a player resumes the game. This happens in standalone

Not sure if anyone wants to know the fix for this. But all you have to do is..

Fix for deactivate mouse : in gamemenu.lua .. remove the DeactivateMouse() at the vary end.
I have not tested this, but you might need to activate mouse still when unpausing. I already put this in place so did not test without it.

fix for copy of the mouse img : in gamemenu.lua .. Add this to script: SetSpritePosition(your_mouse_cursor_sprite_name_that_you_use_in_other_scripts,200,200)

All though you could just remove the code that creates a new mouse sprite and just use SetSpritePosition on your old one... derp, im still playing around with it but hopfully this spreads some light on this.. you have to play around with the menu scripts to fit your game.

Sidenote: This means that when the player pauses the game, the variables from other scripts on the level are still active

Simply replace ActivateMouse and Deactivate mouse with functions in your script that set an indication of whether the mouse is activated or not, then check that indication to decide whether you need to reactivate the mouse or not.

That way you don't need to mess with gameplayercontrol.lua.

thats awesome!

the gamemenu lua will still create a new mouse curser though when pausing. if you already have one active.

so editing that out and setting the one you already have active to the mouse x y is needed

i also love that the variables are still there in the background. you could display player money or other info to the player. pretty cool

Are you saying you want to use your custom mouse sprite on the game menu when paused?

When resumed you should get your sprite back if you have coded it correctly.

I have it working for me.

This was an issue I had with my game as well. The solution I made was I replaced DeactiveMouse() with ActivateMouse() in the game pause script in titlebank. That way anytime I closed the menu, it would bring back my game cursor.

I think when I start focusing more my menu design parts of my game I'll use variable like you have there Amen

The same trick can be used anywhere you use a global function, i.e. make a local copy of it.

For example if you wanted to use a different mouse pointer in the menus without having to mess about changing the default one or changing stock scripts you can do the following:


Obviously you would need to do similar for all the menus that you want to replace the mouse cursor on but as long as your script gets loaded after all the titlebank scripts it should work in theory.

Why don't use SetSpriteImage ( mySprite , myImage )

Because the titlebank scripts will simply replace it next time you invoke the menu.

Hmm, it makes sense.