How do I disable OnMouseDown() ?

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1

Hi all,
Need some help here.
I am trying to make a system by which player has to talk to a person before talking to the other one. I figured I have to disable the script and enable it when needed. But it still somehow works even after disabling. Here is the script of the second person -

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class JeffTalk : MonoBehaviour {

public bool textBoxOnCheck = false;
public GameObject messageBox;
public GameObject textBox;
public string messageText;
public GameObject questBox;
public GameObject questText;
public string questName;
public GameObject ringCount;
public string ringNumbers;
public string talkProgress;
public GameObject jeff;

void OnMouseDown () {
	if (jeff.GetComponent<JeffTalk> ().enabled = true) {

		if ((textBoxOnCheck == false) && (talkProgress == "notDone")) {
			questText.GetComponent<Text> ().text = questName;
			textBoxOnCheck = true;
			messageBox.SetActive (true);
			textBox.GetComponent<Text> ().text = messageText;
			messageText = "Our village is famous for the ancestral Albedo Rings which was created by god. But few days ago, a lightning strike scattered them all accross the land. Can you please retrieve them?";
			ringCount.GetComponent<Text> ().text = ringNumbers;
			questText.SetActive (true);
		} else {
			textBoxOnCheck = false;
			messageBox.SetActive (false);
			ringCount.SetActive (true);
			questName = "Active Quest : Retrieve the Albedo Rings";
			talkProgress = "Done";
		}
	} else {
	}
}
void Update () {
}

}

2

Disabling a script really only disables Update and related (LateUpdate, FixedUpdate), so otherwise you have to manually check for the disabled state. Put if (!enabled) return; as the first line of OnMouseDown.

3

You have a typo in this line:

if (jeff.GetComponent<JeffTalk>().enabled = true) {

You don’t check if the component is enabled but you actually enable it because you set it to true. It should be:

if (jeff.GetComponent<JeffTalk>().enabled == true) {

or even simple:

if (jeff.GetComponent<JeffTalk>().enabled) {