WaitForSeconds Not Working

Questions & Answers
1

I need to delay an Inventory’s open time, but “yield return WaitforSeconds” is not working. Here is the coroutine’s code:

public IEnumerator CheckIfStillHover() {
		yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime (1.5f); // change to options class variable once it is created
		print ("Fine. I admit it. I cut in line. Happy?");
	}

In case this has something to do with the way I called it, which I also had difficulty with (if anyone knows why I had to store it in a variable to call it, please tell me), here is the code from a separate script which I used to call the coroutine:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent (typeof (InventoryRenderer))]
public class ToggleInventoryHover : MonoBehaviour {

	//name the inventory to match this string (or vice-versa)
	public string inventoryName = "Inventory";
	GameObject inventory;
	IEnumerator coroutine;

	bool isHover = false;

	void Start() {
		inventory = GameObject.Find(inventoryName);
		coroutine = inventory.GetComponent<InventoryRenderer> ().CheckIfStillHover ();
	}

	void OnMouseOver() {
		isHover = true;
		inventory.GetComponent<InventoryRenderer> ().StartCoroutine(coroutine);
	}

	void OnMouseExit() {
		isHover = false;

	}
}
5

Here’s a possible solution you’re not keeping in mind:

WaitForSeconds DOES NOT WORK AS A DELAY OUTSIDE THE COROUTINE.

When you start a Coroutine, it executes itself, but the script inmediately executes the following instruction. For a WaitForSeconds to work, you need to put the code to open the inventory inside the coroutine method.

It would look something like this:

public IEnumerator CheckIfStillHover() {
         yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime (1.5f); // change to options class variable once it is created
        //Whatever you want to delay goes in here
 print ("Fine. I admit it. I cut in line. Happy?");
     }
2

i would use the Invoke mehod for this its much more straight forward and in the end is doing the same behind the scenes Unity - Scripting API: MonoBehaviour.Invoke
Also check if OnMouseOver is really called

3

What do you mean when you say “not working” ? It would help if you identified what problem you’re having.

Is there a reason you are using WaitForSecondsRealtime and not WaitForSeconds(5) ??

4

I’m new but I’d like to help if I can.

public class Whatever : MonoBehaviour
{
public float delay = 1.5;

	void Start()
	{

OnMouseOver(); // I use Button also
StartCoroutine (LoadStuffAfterDelay (delay));
}
IEnumerator LoadStuffAfterDelay(float delay)
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds (delay);
//
//Do this next directions here
}
}