Pausing and Creating Actors... help please!

[recklusfire1]

I am trying, by script, to create a "paused" actor that appears on the "p" Key-Down Event, which is pause. So basically when the user presses "p", not only will the game be paused, but the word "paused" will appear on the screen as well.

The problem is that the code I have created works one way, and not the other. Yet, the one way it works is the opposite of what I want it to do. What happens is that the "paused" appears on unpause, and doesn't delete(destroy); you can simply think that... "Ooh, just switch the script around.." but that does not work.

Here is the script that DOES work, but not the way I want it to work:

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if(pause == 0)
{
    DestroyActor("Paused");
    PauseGameOn();
    pause = 1;
}

else
{
    CreateActor("Paused", "icon", "(none)", "(none)", -105, -41, true);
    PauseGameOff();
    pause = 0;
}



Here is script that does NOT work:

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if(pause == 0)
{
    CreateActor("Paused", "icon", "(none)", "(none)", -105, -41, true);
    PauseGameOn();
    pause = 1;
}

else
{
    DestroyActor("Paused");
    PauseGameOff();
    pause = 0;
}



Does anyone have any tips or answers to my problem?

[Rux]

For this you'd need to make a timer. First parent the paused actor to the view. Then change the transparency to 100%.
Then on p create timer 50 milliseconds (change loop to 1) and on timer event choose whatever you made the time and choose script editor

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if(pause == 0)
{
     pause = 1;
     PauseGameon();
}
else if(pause == 1)
{
     pause = 0;
     PauseGameoff();
}

Then on p down event (no repete!) script editor

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if(pause = 0)
{
      //Change pause actors transparency to 0%\\
}
else if(pause == 1)
{
     //Change the transparency to 100%\\
}

Try it. DON'T TYPE ANYTHING IN THE // \\ OR IT WONT WORK