GUI Buttons - Which Approach Is Best?

Questions & Answers
1

Hi

I am making an item shop with GUI buttons.

Would you suggest writing a script that has a switch statement for all possible cases and attaching it to an update function and putting each script on each item button, or should I write a script that detects the mouse and checks it vs. every button via a “item shop” container?

Or is there a 3rd method that’s even more efficient that you can suggest?

2

Hey,

When I have previously made shop GUI’s I used OnGUI to render out button’s. You can customize there look with GUIStyle. Then I create if statements around the buttons that call a function to do a specific thing like so,

public GUIStyle Start_Button;

    if( GUI.Button(new Rect(100, 100, 150, 50), "", Start_Button))
    {
        FunctionBuySomething();
    }

I know this is C# but if you use JavaScript then it is easily applicable and I’m sure you get the idea!