pause behavior issues

SAMman

for some reason my pause button only work every other click, don't know where or how that happened. Any thoughts would be welcome if anyone has had a similar issue. Thanks.
SM

ultima

consistently or just sometimes?

it happened to me before and it was because the button was too small, make a larger area using a transparent touch actor instead of using the "usually smaller-than-finger"button

SAMman

thanks, how do I make it transparent? and yes it is consistent! Debugging bytes! fyi!
SM

SAMman

well, still no luck with it. thanks for the help so far though.
SM

LoadingZero

mhmmm your rule is when touch is pressed and mouse is inside?

SAMman

yeah it is, just double checked. I know it's really weird.

DoMan

I know and can fix your problem. the pause button is unpausing itself as soon as you hit pause, as the rule "if paused and touched, unpause" happens as soon as "if unpaused, pause on touch" happens. you will have to be light speed if you want it to stay paused. you will need a separate "resume" button to turn the pause off. Otherwise use timers and delays to allow only afterwards to let the toggle switch back.

gamedivision

i had same issue this is what i did
when touch is pressed timer after 0.3s run to completion
pause game
then in your resume button
when touch is pressed
timer after 0.3s run to completion
unpause game

SAMman

Thanks, I will give that a try too!