Avoid Click same time

[neufoctobre]

Hello,

1. May be my question will be stupid but I wonder how to avoid fast click or click at same time. My problem is, I have a button 1 animation telling a buttton 2 to move out of screen, during this short animation I'm able to click on the animated button 2 and that is a problem, I have this problem for all my buttons. The only solution I found is to active a collider above all other for the entire screend during the animation but I still can click the button if I click enough fast..

2. In a same way, can I say to UIPlayAnimation to don't do anything if an object is enable. For example like above, I have a button 1 animation who enable a disabled button 2 which is out of screen and when the animation is done the button is on screen, If I clicked again on button 1 the animation begin again, I want to avoid that.

Thanks in advance !

[jcbadboy]

Friend, you could do this by many ways. I can tell you the way i did.

Any button pressed verify if some tweener is playing.

void ButtonPressed()
{
   if (any)
      return;
   else
      Do();
}


I can´t tell you the best way to know if any tweener is playing, my solution is not elegant, so i will not show you for now.
I sought for some static method or property in NGUI, but I do not found.
Perhaps somebody can show us how to do this. Anybody? 

[ArenMook]

A tweener is playing when it's enabled. It automatically disables itself when it finishes.

[jcbadboy]

Yes, thanks ArenMook.

But, would be cool if we could know if any tweener is playing.

I can do a findcomponent in scene and ask if any tweener is enabled. but it cost a lot.

In my solution here I create a list of all tweener playing. When each one stop, they leave the list.

If the list is greater then zero, a tweener still playing, and I do not accept inputs from any button.

My solution is bizarre, i know. Cuz, first, was needed to change NGUI to do that. Second, mantaining this list here cost more memory and more time of the frame.

Would be better if UITweener class had a static list, where each one tweener started add it self in. And, internally, remove it self from when finished.
This list, or a property knowing this list, would be accessed statically from every where. So, you can know now if any tweener is playing.

[ArenMook]

If you need something like that then add a custom script that will do just that -- add itself to a static list. Attach it alongside the tweens you are interested in.

Remember, NGUI also adds tweens for things like button color animations for example. You don't want everything.

[jcbadboy]

Thanks for the reply. it can be easily made.

On my project, to bypass the tweens I don´t care I made UIPlaytween class generate the list of tweens of same group. Also, on each tween, UIPlaytween register a method on OnFinished to remove it from that list.
The list is static, so i can look into it and make my decisions about other tweens.

Could be possible NGUI maintain a static list of teens playing and a property read only?

Something like this:

    static List<UITweener> UITweeners;

    public static void AddUITweener(UITweener tweener)
    {
        if (UITweeners == null )
            UITweeners = new List<UITweener>();

        UITweeners.Add(tweener);
    }

    public static void RemoveUITweener(UITweener tweener)
    {
        if (UITweeners == null)
            return;

        UITweeners.Remove(tweener);
    }

    public static bool IsAnimating()
    {
        if (UITweeners != null && UITweeners.Count > 0)
            return true;

        return false;
    }

[ArenMook]

It really isn't something that belongs in the UI system... It's game specific code. You can even add to a custom static list as you play a tween and remove it in its OnFinished function - it would be 1 line of code each.

[jcbadboy]

ArenMook, thanks for the reply.

i understand the concern about not put game things on ui system, but, on my project i don't play tweens, i only play UIPlay Tween, because theres is a lot of tweeners being playing behind it, not only two or three. My game screens are complex and multiple objects are animated at same time. So i dont tryed to control each tweener, even for put each one in a custom list.

So, I  needed to change uiplaytween, so uiplaytween controls the custom list. Because all the tweeners will be children of it. 

[ArenMook]

So what's preventing you from attaching this script beside the tweens you are interested in?

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3.  
4. [RequireComponent(typeof(UITweener))]
5. public class CustomTracker : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     static public List<UITweener> list = new List<UITweener>();
8.     UITweener mTween;
9.     void OnEnable () { mTween = GetComponent<UITweener>(); list.Add(mTween); }
10.     void OnDisable() { list.Remove(mTween); }
11. }
12.  

[jcbadboy]

ArenMook thanks for your time and effort.

Yes, would be very good. I understood the first time you brought it up. Thank you!