Making a Menu System Using the Sub-Application Object: Some Questions

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Hokay, here's my situation.

I've been using the Box2D "testbed" application as a reference point for using the Sub-Application object. The way I would like to set up my menu system, is to have a main frame that contains the menu system, hidden on a top layer, with a Sub-Application that calls subsequent game frames into it, on the bottom layer. This way, I only need one instance of my menu system in the whole game.

I'm having a couple of issues:

1. The Sub-Application is appearing above everything else in the frame, even though it is on the lowest Layer. Is there a way to make Layers/Objects appear in front of a running Sub-Application object?

2. I can't figure out a good way to pause the game while the menu is visible. I found the "Pause and resume" function under Storyboard Controls, but I don't want to set a resume key; I just want to pause and resume manually in code. In the "testbed" application, the Box2D devs created a global value called "Paused," and use a button to set it to 0 (running) and 1 (paused). I can't, however, find any code that actually looks at those values and pauses/resumes the game. It just seems to happen.. Does anyone know offhand how they may be doing this?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions/help!

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[BarcSsarc]

Okay, I'm doing that now.

Here's the new topic, if anyone is interested.

Thanks!

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