Pause UDD from screen?

[Mole-chan]

Hello,
I am creating a UDD framework with some time sensitive interactions, and notice that they still run in the background even while the user is trying to quit. I figured out how to pause this interaction when the displayable is in focus, but once another screen is shown, it just keeps going regardless.

Obviously, this would not be fair to the user, so I was wondering if there is possibly a way to forcefully pause a displayable while another screen is in focus?

Thank you.

[nature1996]

I'm not sure if it will work, but maybe defining your screen as modal might solve the problem: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens. ... -statement

If it is about timer in the background, or running function, you might have to manually pause it when a menu is open. I'm pretty sure there is a flag that is raised when a screen considered as a menu is show, but I don't know its name or how to raise it if you are using a personal screen.

In order to help more, we would probably need the problematic part of your code (or a facsimile with placeholder) in order to see and test for ourselves.

[SONTSE]

Just made my example for UDD which pauses when enters game menu (right click). Not pretty, but you can utilize it if nothing better comes along.
Hope it helps

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init python:
    config.layers.append('X')
    
    def any(list):
        for item in list:
            if item:
                return True
        return False
    
    class Paused(renpy.Displayable):
        def __init__(self,child,screen):
            super(Paused,self).__init__()
            self.child = renpy.displayable(child)
            self.screen = screen
            self.xt = 0
            self.ct = 0
            
        def render(self, width, height, st, at):
            child_render = renpy.render(self.child, width, height, st, at)
            self.width, self.height = child_render.get_size()
            render = renpy.Render(self.width, self.height)
            render_y = self.xt*100 % 620
            render.blit(child_render, (0, render_y))
            return render
        
        def event(self, ev, x, y, st):
            if not any([renpy.get_screen(scr) for scr in self.screen]):
                self.xt-=self.ct-st
            renpy.redraw(self,0)
            renpy.timeout(.0)
            self.ct = st
            return self.child.event(ev, x, y, st)
    
image sol = Solid('#f0f',xysize=(100,100))
image paused = Paused('sol',['save','load','history','preferences'])

label main_menu:
    return

label start:
    show paused at topleft onlayer X
    while True:
        'foo'
        'bar'
    return