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radubolovan
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Published before Godot 3 was released.
Hello,
How can I enable / disable input for entire application from GDScript?
The desired effect is that all input devices (mouse, keyboard, controllers, touches, etc) will be enabled / disabled for the entire application from GDScript.
Best regards,
Radu
[Later edit]: Using 2.1.4 official stable
[Update 2018, 25th July]: This also works in 3.0.5 official stable.
I don’t think there is a way to do this on engine level, but it’s possible if you simply stop processing input in all your scripts.
You would also need a fullscreen invisible Control on top of everything to prevent mouse input from going through, and give it focus so key/button focus won’t access anything.
add a script to the scene (inherited from “Control”)
To disable the input:
get_tree().get_root().set_disable_input(true)
To enable the input:
get_tree().get_root().set_disable_input(false)
Looks like on Windows, even if the input is disabled “Alt +F4” still works though. Everything else is “dead”.
Oh yeah… there is that, since the game has a default viewport, which is the tree root. It’s better than putting a fullscreen Control^^
You still need to stop any script from polling the Input class though.
Zylann | 2018-01-06 01:33
Couldn’t he also pause the tree? It might not work very well if he wants to run physics though.
Sojan | 2019-07-30 18:54
btw i cant use the code when I attach it to AnimationPlayer node
