Pause and Un-pause with Menu

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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So I’m trying to pause and un-pause the game. I can press P to pause the game. And click the resume button in the pause menu. But I want to be able to just press P or esc again to unpause it. This is what I have tried

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But it doesn’t un-pause just by pressing P. I can resume fine via the resume button in the widget blueprint.

Which is as follows

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Any ideas what I can do to get this working?

Again, I can un-pause fine when using the widget button. But not with an input action key.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance all!

And happy new year!

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Disregard! Got help on discord.

I had set the input mode to UI only. Changing it to game and UI fixed this issue.

Also, you don’t need a boolean variable for is paused. You can just check if the game is paused or not.
Like so

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You an also tag an input to work in pause mode by selecting the input node you put in your Graph and modifying a checkbox in its detail panel.