Close pause menu with a hotkey

Unreal Engine Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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#1

Hi!

I made a pause menu for my game and it is working perfectly fine except one thing - I can’t close it with a hotkey.
I was searching on the forum and found the [topic][1] with the same problem without any answers.

Here’s my graph([high res image link][2]):

http://savepic.org/8359049.jpg

I found that the hotkey(escape) I assigned is working on closing the menu only if ‘Set input Game Mode and UI’ is used and the game is unpaused.

Is there some way to fix this?

#2
  • Keep Set Input Game Mode and UI on. You really do not want to use Set Input Mode UI Only too much. It’s not really needed.
  • Next, on “InputActionMenu” key, click on it, and on the details tab, check on Execute when Paused
  • That should resolve your issue. However, your graph is a bit messy and convoluted. You should be able to just use a FlipFlop node for this for the Toggle of the Menu on key press.
  • Good luck!
#3

Thanks! That worked out!

I was using FlipFlop at the first place, but I found that it is not working properly with Resume button in the menu. If I will use the button to close the menu FlipFlop won’t be able to know about it and will stay in the same state.

The only thing left - when I’m pressing on the blank space in the menu my cursor is disappearing for a second. Is there a way to fix it? I assume that it is because he’s changing focus for a second.

#4

Ah, never mind. I figured out this by myself. Just needed to uncheck ‘Hide cursor during capture’ in the ‘Set Input Game Mode and UI’ node.

#5

Well, you should be using Set Mouse Cursor (on,off) that will make it easier on you for the logic.

  • Set Game Paused True
  • Show Mouse Cursor True
  • Set Input Mode to Game and UI
  • OR
  • Set Game Paused False
  • Show Mouse Cursor False
  • Set Input Mode Game Only
#6

Yeah, already did it. Thanks a lot, anyway!

#7

Hey how did you get around the flip flip issue with hotkey and resume button?