Making random name once.

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Hello there,

In the game I am making the player has a phone and as soon as the phoneBool = true, onGUI draws the phone gui, with a text saying: … is calling. The … is a name randomly picked from a a list. The problem is that onGUI runs every frame and thus every frame the name of the caller gets changed. I have been trying to fix this for the past days but I can’t seem to do it. I have tried while loops at the name generation but that didn’t work.
The code for the name generation is:
function getName(){

	var rName : String;
	var rNumber: float;
	var myClientel : int;
	
	 rNumber = Random.value;
	 myClientel = Mathf.RoundToInt(6 * rNumber + 1);
	
	 switch(myClientel){
	 	case 1: rName = "Rio";
	 	break;
	 	case 2: rName = "De'Range";
	 	break;
	 	case 3: rName = "Detroit-De";
	 	break;
	 }
	 return rName;  


}

The code for the name displaying is:

		var rNames: String = getName();
		GUI.Box(Rect(300, 150, 190, 125), rNames +" is Calling" );

I hope you guys can help me.

Thanks in advance, Zenthor

2

Where you set the phoneBool = true, that is where you want to generate a random name, you only want that code to run once when you set phoneBool = true, since that is only getting set once.