Gui Question (sorry the gui forum isn't very active and it's time sensitive)

Unity Engine
1

Hello all,

I’m trying to get more gui elements to show up when I click a button in a menu for nested menus. I had assumed the following code would work:

void OnGUI(){
		if(GUI.Button(new Rect(0,0,100,100),"Test Button")){
					GUI.Box(new Rect(150,150,40,100), "The Button is Clicked");
		}
	}

but it does not work as expected. The Gui box never shows up. If I move the Gui box code outside the conditional, it shows up as expected. I’m curious how I’d get functionality like this to work.

Thanks much

2

The problem is the GUI.Button conditional is only true for a split second, so that’s the amount of time it will show your GUI.Box for. What you could do is have a boolean value that determines if the GUI.Box should be drawn.

bool showBox = false;

void OnGUI(){
    if(GUI.Button(new Rect(0,0,100,100),"Test Button")){
        showBox = true;
    }
    if (showBox)
        GUI.Box(new Rect(150,150,40,100), "The Button is Clicked");

}
3

I see :frowning:

If I used a toolbar, will that always return a value? I’m trying to make a menu system, so I planned on using a toolbar anyway but was just testing with a button. If I switched to that and used a switch statement would that work do you think?

4

I’ve only used a toolbar once, but I think that’s the way to do it. Just put your GUI.Box in the switch statement and it should work just fine. And yes, the toolbar always returns a value (99.9% sure).