Pausing without Timescale

So here's the deal, whenever my player touches an item, I need the player and all enemies/bullets to freeze. But then I need specific sounds to play with specific timing. Is there anyway to pause the action onscreen without pausing events using timedelta, ie every X milliseconds...

it should go something like this...

if player collides with item then

    pause onscreen action

    wait x amount of time

    play sound

    unpause onscreen action

any ideas guys?

Variable 1 = 0

Always set variable2 to (edit)timedelta.

Variable 1=1

Always set variable2 to 0

Always set movement blah, blah *variable2

Using globals, or private variables....

Edit:

Whoops replaced timescale with timedelta.

I don't know if it helps in this situation (I'm not sure if I fully understood the issue), but you can always have audio being unaffected by timescale (Properties/Timescale audio)

Also I made an example of staying time-based (and keeping a few things running, e.g an audio fade) while Timescale = 0 in "Verve!", an example game. You can find it in the examples & tutorials section.

But again, not sure if it helps in this specific case.

what I wound up doing was to create a variable for "Action Pause", and I'm know just having to retro fit all of the appropriate code with it, so that...

if "Action Pause" = 0 then

execute AI and Behvaviours

elseis "Action Pause" = 1 then

do absolutely nothing

lol that way I can have "every X milliseconds" counters reset "Action Pause" back to 0 to resume the game instead of having to wait for the player to press a key or something.

If only there was a way to deactivate certain objects... like turning off a switch.

and my fix failed miserably... <img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />