Getting Update and OnGui to talk to each other.

Unity Engine
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Ok, I’m very new at this (programming and Unity) so bear with me.

I’ve just started a project that has a rails-shooter like element to it. I’ve got a script using OnGUI() to place reticles on the mouse the way I’d like, but I know that I have some physics things I’ll program later that will need mouse position as well. These will almost certainly need to be in Update(). I was wondering if there was a good way of tying the two together so that I only Input.mousePosition once per cycle in Update() lets say and have OnGUI() take the data from there.

Or am I going about this completely the wrong way?

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So for clarity my code structure currently looks like this:
"
Def Update()
Input.mousePosition
Code Block A (some code transforming that mouse position)
Some code referring to Code Block A to do things like aim and manuever.

Def OnGui()
Input.mousePosition
Code Block A (some code transforming that mouse position)
Some code referring to Code Block A to do things like place a reticule on the mouse.
"

how do I avoid this duplication of work? Both Update and OnGUI are getting the mouse position and doing the same first few steps to it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Solved my own problem, it was terribly noobish. I hadn’t declared my variables. That’s what gave me the problems with having OnGUI read stuff in Update.

Code now looks like this

Declaring Code Block A variables as public and mostly doubles (interesting how boo uses double instead of float, that threw me for awhile.)

Def Update():
Input.mousePosition
Code Block A
Other code refering to code block A

Def OnGUI():
Code refering to Code block A