Pause Game Disables Gamepad Start/Back

anonymous_user_537a337d · August 21, 2015, 3:59pm

Hello All.

Pause is working a little too good. After issuing APlayerController->SetPause(true) input from the gamepad appears to be disabled. Is there a way to get the Start/Back buttons while in a pause mode? Having input disabled seems like an odd design choice so I suspect something else is off.

Any suggestions?

anonymous_user_537a337d · August 27, 2015, 2:34am

Does anyone else have this problem?

When I press the Start button (Xbox Special Right or Left) to pause my game, and call SetPause() the gamepad stops sending events to the game. Is this normal behavior? Have I done something wrong?

Jambax · August 27, 2015, 8:41pm

The only thing I can think of is that once you hit pause, it stops ticking the PlayerController along with it’s Inputs… that might be an engine issue and is probably a bug I’d say.

anonymous_user_537a337d · August 27, 2015, 11:26pm

Thanks for the feedback TheJamsh. It would be nice if someone else could verify this issue too.

Alderbit · August 27, 2015, 11:36pm

You can tell your input actions to execute when paused like this

C++


InputComponent->BindAction("TogglePause", EInputEvent::IE_Pressed, this, &MyPlayerController::TogglePause).bExecuteWhenPaused = true;

Blueprint

Jambax · August 28, 2015, 8:27am

Nice Alderbit!

anonymous_user_537a337d · August 28, 2015, 3:09pm

Awesome Alderbit That worked perfectly.

Thank you.