Button problem

[Farflame]

I'm having a problem with a button on my game. I need to click it with the mouse as normal, but I also need to use the space-bar for another part of my game. Problem is, after clicking the button once, it seems to be 'focused' or something, and an clicks of the spacebar also now press the button, even if I move the mouse-pointer away.

Is there some way to stop this behaviour?

[maVado]

Well you could click on the background to defocus the button, but thats how windows controls work. Same with edit boxes. If you just have a button and no other controls like scrollbars, editboxes, lists and so on you could also make an active and turn this into a button using the alternate values of the buttons for the different states like mouse over, pressed, and so on.

[Jeff]

Switch over to using the Active System box over the button object if possible. This will work like you want with no hassle.

I like Active System boxes over the old button object anyway -- more options and controls

[Sphax]

Try using the action "Set focus off".

The advantage of using Button object (or ButtonCS object ) is that those buttons use the Windows theme and then don't looks like the Windows 3.1 - Windows 2000 buttons.

[Jeff]

Does the regular button object have that?
I can't find it --- It would be a nice action.

[Sphax]

Ho... If the regular Button object don't have that, you can use the Window control object to save the "focus state" at start of frame and restore it each time a button is clicked.