Making buttons in-script

[bionicnacho]

Hello!

I am doing game saving and i got stuck on something.

I can save the game just fine. So i have a list of all the game saves. I want a window to open game. It would list all of the saved games and let me click on them to open it.

With unity's default GUI, i would use

1.     for(var sg in LevelSerializer.SavedGames[LevelSerializer.PlayerName]) {
2.        if(GUILayout.Button(sg.Caption)) {
3.          sg.Load();
4.          Time.timeScale = 1;
5.          }
6.     }

How could i do something like this with NGUI?

What i thought i could do was make the "for" make new buttons (like the unity gui).

[ArenMook]

Create a button for how a single saved game entry would look like, save it as a prefab, and NGUITools.AddChild-instantiate it at run-time as many times as you want. For added ease-of-use, add it as a child of a game object that has a UIGrid on it. It will reposition the children automatically for you, acting as a GUILayout.

[bionicnacho]

Is there any document that shows how to use NGUITools.AddChild?

I have no idea on how to use that.

[bionicnacho]

-bump-

[ArenMook]

Serious?

NGUITools.AddChild(parent, prefab).

[bionicnacho]

Well, i'm sorry for asking! I'm new to this NGUI stuff.

[ArenMook]

Rule of thumb... try using something you're trying to figure out, then post a question if you don't understand it.

Especially for really simple stuff like this. You could have at least looked at the function by going to its definition.

1. /// <summary>
2. /// Instantiate an object and add it to the specified parent.
3. /// </summary>
4.  
5. static public GameObject AddChild (GameObject parent, GameObject prefab)

...or checked the script documentation for the function:

http://www.tasharen.com/ngui/docs/class_n_g_u_i_tools.html#af58290856540b1f25b682f5f3ae00baa