Pausing a game

[sandra]

Hi.
I want my game to be paused when the player presses P or something. How can I do that?
By the way, I'm using DDraw

[Zaei]

If you have rendering separate from game state updates, just put an if statement around the updating, and use a boolean value that is toggled when the user pauses.

Z.

[sandra]

I'm sorry but I did not get what you meant by:

If you have rendering separate from game state updates,

[Arbiter]

I think he means something like

Do game loop

If blnGo = true then
        Do all the funky game updating here
En if

Get keyboard presses

If 'P' pressed the blnGo = not blnGo 'toggles the paused state of the game

loop until 'Q' pressed 'for quit

Or something along those lines

[sandra]

Ok Thank you, I'm gonna try that.

[sandra]

Thank you for your help, the code worked.

[Arbiter]

So,

When do we get to see your game.....

[sandra]

You really are interested?
But I don't think you would want to see it because my game, as it is, has many problems.