Defold-input/ consuming input/ pause button

Questions
1

i’m using the defold-input cursor script to drag my gameobjects around.
but i don’t want the messages, when i show a gui screen to make the player pick an option.
so is there a way to temporarily disable the cursor script?

a bit like the input consuming from the example at https://defold.com/manuals/input/

i tried consuming input … but apparently i still get a released message from the cursor script, after i click my gui button.

i tried finding an example with a pause button like that, but wasn’t lucky

2

If the GUI has acquired input after your game it should get input first and you should be able to consume it by returning true in on_input of your gui_script.

Could you maybe release input focus on your game when you show a GUI and then acquire it again when the GUI is removed?

3

sounds reasonable, will try to do that.

is there some easy way to list the whole input stack, to see whats going on ?
if not i’ll make a drawing. good old pen&paper :smiley:

4

No, sorry, we don’t have any functionality like that. We have discussed a way to include it, maybe in the profiler data.

5

You can probably wrap your acquire_input_focus calls into a helper module, that keeps track of the stack for you?

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i found the problem:
in my gui i did everything to on a pressed event. then i consumed, and “gave controll” back to my main game… and then it picked up the released event…

so now in gui i react not on pressed, but released, so then the maingame gets no released.
works as designed :smiley: