Using same Gamepad button for two actions, in game and menu selection

Hey everyone.

To get right into things, I'm working on a game where the "A" button on an XBox One controller has two actions.

1) During gameplay, the "A" button makes the character jump but...

2) ...in a menu, it's the select button.

What happens is when I click out of a menu, my character jumps and i don't want that. I've tried adding a boolean to check whether or not a menu is open and put that around the jump code like,

Code (CSharp):

1.             if (gameManager.gameIsPaused == false)
2.             {
3.                 if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
4.                 {
5.                     Jump();
6.                 }
7.             }

but it isn't doing anything. It's almost like it button works on the menu item and then the menu closes, the boolean switches to the gameIsPaused ==false and then the engine reads it as, "Oh, gameIsPaused, so I'll go ahead and jump too."

I can think of a fairly inelegant solution but I know there has to be a simple, clean way to do this.

If you need additional clarification I can elaborate.

Thanks!

 

Try adding Debug.Logs() all over your code to see what exactly is happening. Is it possible that you are perhaps unpausing the game mere moments before the jump code is even called?

 

Well you can resume the game at a coroutine with some delay in order to avoid that... or just use Input.GetButtonUp() for resume the game since this always will be proc after GetButtonDown. Just lazy ideas but it should work.

 

Thank you so much, rubcc95. I'll give those suggestions a try today.

 

I'll do that to double check.