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That's because if you read the tutorial, you'll notice I don't have you set up a "click off panel".

Using Modal Enabled, you do not need a click off panel. The player can simply click on the GUI pop up and it will go down

Actually you are supposed to be able to exit xDialogToggle by keyboard input as well.

if (event == kExitMode):
            # trigger the closing of the dialog here

But if you disable Modal, don't forget to disable the avatar movement when the GUI goes up

TheMagician wrote: However, to repeat it one more time: OnControlKeyEvent is never called for modal GUIs (at least that's my conclusion from all the information I've gathered).
Using debug print commands I've found out that even in Cyan's xDialogToggle file the OnControlKeyEvent section is never called when the GUI is set to modal, not even when pressing ESCAPE.

TheMagician wrote:

But if you disable Modal, don't forget to disable the avatar movement when the GUI goes up

What's the Python function to do that?

Also, while we're at the topic, is there actually a way to disable (and later enable again) the user from moving the avatar that you can set within 3D Max (perhaps via responders)?
For a short cutscene I'd like to have my avatar stand still and not move. I haven't found a way to do that in Max.

• PtDisableMouseMovement() / PtEnableMouseMovement() comes in handy when your GUI has clickables. This makes sure the avatar does not walk when he/she misses a clickable (and that happens more often than you'd expect).
• Then there is PtDisableMovementKeys() / PtEnableMovementKeys() which disables movement by keyboard input. If I remember correctly it still lets the actual control key event pass to be captured by OnControlKeyEvent but you'll have to verify that.
• If you just want to disable forward movement you can use PtDisableForwardMovement() / PtEnableForwardMovement().
• You can even do this for jumping only: PtDisableAvatarJump() / PtEnableAvatarJump()