Pause GUI not working

Unity Engine
1

hello

I am busy coding a pause button for my game. the game pauses correctly but i want it to show a box with a label saying paused. i cannot get it to show the box.

my code

void OnGUI()
{
//Pause the game
if(GUI.Button(new Rect(Screen.width / 2 +310, Screen.height / 2 -220, 60,60), “Pause”))
{
//GUI.Box(new Rect(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2, 200,200), “Game Paused”);
if(Time.timeScale == 1)
{

Time.timeScale = 0;
GUI.Box(new Rect (10,10,100,90), “GAME PAUSED”);
print(“paused”);

}
else
{
Time.timeScale = 1;
print(“not paused”);
}
}

2

Turando, you should use the code tags that are explained at the beginning of the scripting forum
they show up like that [c o d e] … [/c o d e] without the spaces.

When you click on your button, can u see the debug text?

3

Yes the debug text works. If I remove the gui. Box from the if statement it creates the box.

4 
void OnGUI()
{
    //Pause the game
    if(GUI.Button(new Rect(Screen.width / 2 +310, Screen.height / 2 -220, 60,60), "Pause"))
    {
        //GUI.Box(new Rect(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2, 200,200), "Game Paused");
        if(Time.timeScale == 1)
        {
         
            Time.timeScale = 0;

            GUI.Box(new Rect (10,10,100,90), "GAME PAUSED"); // <<<----- Problem
            print("paused");
         
        }
        else
        {
            Time.timeScale = 1;
            print("not paused");
        }
    }
}

It is showing, for exactly one frame.
Your box is only being displayed when you click the button, immediately after that you stop calling for it to be displayed.
Does this make sense?

5

Hello sorry for the late reply.

i managed tonight to get back into unity and try some tests before reading your reply. basically this is how i solved it probably could be an easier way to make it work but this works for now.

    void OnGUI()
    {

        if(GUI.Button(new Rect(Screen.width / 2 +370, Screen.height / 2 -220, 50,50), "Pause"))
        {
            if(paused == true)
            {
                paused = false;
            }
            else if(paused == false)
            {
                paused = true;
            }
        }
        if(paused == true)
        {
            GUI.Box(new Rect(Screen.width / 2 -50, Screen.height / 2 +10, 200,200), "GAME PAUSED");
            PauseGame();
        }
        else if (paused == false)
        {

        }
    }

    void PauseGame()
    {
        if(Time.timeScale==1)
        {
            Time.timeScale=0;
        }
        else
        {
            Time.timeScale=1;
        }
    }

thanks for the help guys