Question

I was trying to create a gameover screen. It would create a new layer and place it on top of the current game layer and have a menu which would allow you to go home. But the menu doesn’t respond after I pause all actions, any way around this? Thanks!

 //Pause all actions
    [[CCDirector sharedDirector] pause];

    //Create new black layer
    CCLayerColor *gameover = [CCLayerColor layerWithColor:ccc4(0, 0, 0, 75)];
    [self addChild:gameover z:1];

    //add menu
    CCMenuItemFont *item1 = [CCMenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Continue" target:self selector:@selector(goToMainMenu)];
    CCMenu *menu = [CCMenu menuWithItems:item1, nil];
    [gameover addChild:menu z:110];

EDIT: I am trying to create a transparent layer on top

Answer 1

Pausing the shared director pauses everything… I just asked this yesterday:

Is there anyway to have a the menu work even when I pause the game?

You can do what the guy did and also another method I found which was just inactivating all your scheduled selectors (i.e. [self unschedule:@selector(gameLogicLoop:)];)

And then you can reschedule the stuff after you are done clicking the menu ([self schedule:@selector(gameLogicLoop:)];).