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TGB Window Focus

by Gellyware · in Torque Game Builder · 01/27/2008 (1:49 am) · 7 replies

What is the current best way with v 1.6 to determine if the window has lost or regained focus?

I found some source on the forums to add support but that source doesn't apply anymore it seems.

Any suggestions?
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Torque Owner Gellyware
#1
01/28/2008 (6:11 pm)
Anyone?

GG Team?

I'm developing a casual game and need to pause the screen when the window has lost focus.

How can I go about doing this? Will it require source change? If so, what and where?

Torque Owner Kevin Epps
#2
01/28/2008 (9:17 pm)
I would like to know this as well!

Torque Owner Joe Rossi
Indri Games
#3
01/28/2008 (9:43 pm)
GG solution to this, posted a while back but still works.
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=35040

To pause the scene action you can use this:
yourGameWindow.getScenegraph().SetScenePause(true);

Pausing streaming music requires another patch, sorry I don't have the link handy.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#4
01/31/2008 (2:54 pm)
That solution is now in the engine, it's a callback, here's an example

function onWindowFocusChange(%status)
{
   error("on window focus change" SPC %status);
}

Torque Owner Kevin Epps
#5
01/31/2008 (6:12 pm)
You guys are awesome! Thanks GG team!

Torque Owner Gellyware
#6
01/31/2008 (6:47 pm)
Agreed, Thanks Matthew.

Associate Alex Scarborough
#7
01/31/2008 (9:12 pm)
Looks like this new feature didn't make it into the mac platform code. If you've got a Pro license and need this on Macs, open up macCarbEvents.cc and add
if (Con::isFunction("onWindowFocusChange"))
      Con::executef( 2, "onWindowFocusChange", activating ? "1" : "0" );
to the end of _OnActivate (line 156).