Pause game - Sub-Application not working

[DEKE15]

Hi,
I'm trying to get my game to pause when the mouse is out of the frame/window.
I have the windows cursor hidden and an active object set to 'xmouse' 'ymouse' to act as a custom cursor.
I have set up the Sub-Application object to 'show' and launch another frame within my app, when the mouse is out of the game frame/window. This all works find - my game pauses when the cursor is out of the frame and I have set it up to play (un-pause) when the cursor re-enters the game frame/window.
But the problem I have is that when the pause screen is on I can't select the window's frame close button (red cross at the top right of the window).
Is there a way to get the windows close button to work when a sub app is running? This issue appears on the 'subappexample.mfa' example mentioned in the forums.
Hope you can help.

[nivram]

In your sub-application, set up a key to close the sub-application.

Space bar is pressed
End application

This will only close the sub-application, not your main application.

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[DEKE15]

Thanks for the reply,

I have set up an active object, which the player clicks on which closes the sub-app (similar to the reply answer posted above). But I want to sub-app to be closed like a normal window - so the actual window close button is accessible.

The overall problem I'm having is actually getting my game to pause and un-pause when the player moves their mouse cursor in and out of the game frame/window.

Is there another way of pausing a game without using the sub-app object.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[nivram]

ctrl+p is the inbuilt pause.

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[DEKE15]

Thanks for the reply.

How do I turn that inbuilt key press off - I really just want it so the player pauses the game when the mouse leaves the frame/window and then the game plays (un-pauses) when the mouse re-enters the frame/window.

Is there a way to disable any inbuilt key presses, like the inbuilt pause?

Any help is appreciated.

[nivram]

Put your events in Groups.
Use "Check if Mouse Pointer is in a zone"

If your mouse pointer is in the zone(s) outside the frame, deactive the Groups.

You can edit the inbuilt menu in the Application Properties.

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[DEKE15]

Great - Thank you.

I will give that a go :-)