Deactivating motion and animation in GM7, For all the instances

I'm making a dialog box for my game, and I don't know how to make it so you can press ENTER to skip to the next dialog box, but freeze the rest of the screen and not do the next action until ENTER is pressed. I was trying to make it like the show_message() function.

if you make it like a typewriter you could use sleep(1) between letters

yea when textbox ends use keyboard_wait

yea I know that´ll react to any key but it´s the easiest(and only XD) way I know

The way I generally input a pause feature is to just have a toggle switch placed in all of my pause-able code. When you pause, you turn it on ... and all of that code stops abruptly, because it's nested in an if(!paused). I'm not sure if GameMaker will disagree with this method but it works fine in Klik products.

This post has been edited by Draco Icebane on Jul 28 2008, 04:48 PM

heres another code that will keep the game running but stop all the movement

all.speed = 0
all.hspeed = 0
all.vspeed = 0
all.image_speed = 0

I'm using a "cheaty" way to show messages and pause the game:

This post has been edited by Alex on Jul 29 2008, 05:17 AM

Thanks, I figured out something that works better, it's not what I planned, it just makes it go away after 10 seconds or so, so you can't always have that message up on your screen.

This post has been edited by Ianprime0509 on Jul 29 2008, 07:19 PM