Button Problem

Hey everyone,

i have a problem with a game i try to make.

In the game i build buildings on a map (like in a strategy game). For the buildings i use prefabs. Every building has an menu with a canvas an info text and a button. If you click on the building the menu opens and by clicking the button an action with a timer starts. The button uses a script wich is a component of the mesh.

Everything works fine for the first building i build. If i build the second one both buttons (action buttons of building one and building two) use the same script.

Now iam searching for a good way to make the button just use the script of the mesh the button is in?

Has anyone an idea how to do so?

 

GetComponentInParent<>() might be useful to you.

Although generally I try to create links between scripts that need to talk to each other right when they're created so that they don't have to go searching the object hierarchy.

 

Some code snips would help. Also just checking you have not made any variables or functions Static?

 

Code (CSharp):

1. Public bool menu;
2. Public float timermax = 5.0f;
3. Public float timer;
4.  
5. Public void Update;
6.  
7. If(menu == true)
8. {
9. timer = timermax - Time.deltaTime
10. if(timer <= 0){
11. timer = timermax;
12. menu = false;
13. }
14. Public void Abbau()
15. {
16. menu = true;
17. }

Public void Abbau is the method the button calls with Unitys on click method in the inspector. But there are two of this scripts or even more if there are more buildings. And i think the button doesn't know wich one he should take.

I can give You more code if iam back home.

 

Is the script attached to the building? And when you drag an object to the on_click inspector do you drag from the scene or a prefab in your assets folder?

 

Yes, the Script is component of the buildings mesh, and i drag it to the on_click from the mesh.

 

It sound like it should work then, I bet there is gonna be one weird thing that was easily overlooked haha.

On thing I could think of, I remember years ago hearing something about a freak issue with multiple objects and click events. Maybe you could look at unsubscribing from the event after clicking.

 

It works right nie. Spend a few hours with this Yesterday.

The meshes were all clones of the prefab named "mesh (Clone)". Now every mesh gets a custom name like "mesh1", "mesh2". The Number is an integer from another script that counts +1 for every mesh of this Type i set to the Map.

After that i deleted the menu in the prefab. Now there ist only one menu in an empty GameObject. If i click on "mesh2" for example, the menu searches for the information of mesh +ID of the mesh i clicked on. This works fine.

Thanks to everyone for the help.