Delay input for three seconds (-_-) (scripting frustrations)

Unity Engine
1

I’ve been trying at this for hours, which is ridiculous. I just want to create a script to delay mouse clicks for three seconds after a mouse click happens.

What I should need to do:

  • create a global variable
  • set that variable to current time after mouse click
  • check time to see if time = variable + 3, then say ‘OK’

I’ve tried for a long time, and I just can’t seem to get it to work. I either get strange errors from Unity (such as !IsPlayingOrEditMode) and other weird complaints. I’ve tried reading as much of the documentation as I can, but it doesn’t help me with this at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can solve this? Also, on a broader scale, is there any way I can have less of a miserable time trying to get to grips with Unity? Is there any other forms of tutorial or documentation that would help me make better progress?

I’ve used C and Blitz3D in the past and never hit my head so often, it’s starting to make me question whether I can work with this. :confused:

2

Have you tried Invoke? Something like:

function OnMouseDown () {
   Invoke("Click", 3.0);
}

function Click () {
   // Do clicky stuff here
}

Sorry to hear you’re having problems…I’m not sure what to suggest since I didn’t have issues like that, but different people have different approaches to things obviously.

–Eric

3

Ah, I managed to solve it…
Here’s how I did it:

GUIUpdate.js

static var updateInterval = 3.0;
static var updateTime = 0;
static var timeLeft : float; 

function Update () {
	if (timeLeft > 0){
		timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
	}
	
	guiText.text = "ready to remove block in : " + GUIupdate.timeLeft.ToString("f1");
	
}

I ended up creating a script which has some global variables (not sure Unity calls them ‘static’, but hey…), and keeps these up to date (a little like the FPScounter.js).

ClickToRemoveObject.js

var detachChildren = false;

function OnMouseOver () {
	
	// Checks that mouse is clicked and time duration has passed
	if (Input.GetButton ("Fire1")  GUIupdate.timeLeft <= 0.0)  {
		if (detachChildren) {
			transform.DetachChildren ();
		}
		DestroyObject (gameObject);
		GUIupdate.timeLeft = GUIupdate.updateInterval;
	}
}

This adds the three seconds to the ‘timeLeft’ variable of the other script, and checks to see whether it is back down to zero before allowing it to work again.