Detecting system menu is open

[Sternentau]

Servus all,

what do you think would be the best way to detect that the player has opened the system menu (by pressing ESC) to hide the addon's windows?

Sternentau

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by Sternentau Servus all, what do you think would be the best way to detect that the player has opened the system menu (by pressing ESC) to hide the addon's windows? Sternentau

How to detect state change of game menu scene:

GAME_MENU_SCENE:RegisterCallback("StateChange", function(oldState, newState)
        if newState == SCENE_SHOWING then
            d("Scene manager has started showing game menu scene.")
        elseif newState == SCENE_SHOWN then
            d("Game menu scene is fully shown.")
        elseif newState == SCENE_HIDING then
            d("Scene manager has started hiding game menu scene.")
        elseif newState == SCENE_HIDDEN then
            d("Game menu scene is completely hidden.")
        end
    end)

But I'd use a bit different approach. Create a scene fragment from your top level window and then add it to scenes where you want to show it.
http://www.esoui.com/portal.php?&id=27&pageid=12

[Fyrakin]

I use

ZO_GameMenu_InGame:IsHidden()

to know when Menu is open.

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by Fyrakin I use ZO_GameMenu_InGame:IsHidden() to know when Menu is open.

If you just want to know if the game menu scene is active, you can also use:

GAME_MENU_SCENE:IsShowing()

If you use this function or callback mentioned above depends on how you want to use it.

Callback is automatically fired every time when scene state is changed, so it is probably easier method how to show or hide your window:

GAME_MENU_SCENE:RegisterCallback("StateChange", function(oldState, newState)
        if newState == SCENE_SHOWING then
            yourWindow:SetHidden(true)
        elseif newState == SCENE_HIDDEN then
            yourWindow:SetHidden(false)
        end
    end)

But if you already have function which shows/hides window eg. some kind of OnUpdate handler, you might want to use function posted by Fyrakin.

[Sternentau]

Thank you a lot Fyrakin and Garkin!
Now i have the idea - great