Third Party Displaying connection status on a slider (PUN2)

Heya all,

I had a question on, how can I display photon's connection status on a slider. I'd like to do this to implement something like.
- On play button clicked, loading screen is displayed
- Slider displays connection status
- When connected to master, load menu etc

I'm unsure if this is possible, if it is what I can use to make this possible.

 

In best case, you use the built in callbacks to react to PUN's current state.
If you just want to display the current state, access PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient.State.

 

Thanks for your reply!
Ok so I tried this

Code (CSharp):

1.         switch (PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient.State)
2.         {
3.             case ClientState.ConnectingToNameServer:
4.                 loadingBar.value = .12f;
5.                 break;
6.             case ClientState.ConnectedToNameServer:
7.                 loadingBar.value = .25f;
8.                 break;
9.             case ClientState.Authenticating:
10.                 loadingBar.value = .38f;
11.                 break;
12.             case ClientState.Authenticated:
13.                 loadingBar.value = .52f;
14.                 break;
15.             case ClientState.ConnectingToMasterServer:
16.                 loadingBar.value = .69f;
17.                 break;
18.             case ClientState.ConnectedToMasterServer:
19.                 loadingBar.value = 1;
20.                 break;
21.  
22.         }

But it's not really accurate, like when it reaches authenticated, it goes back a bit and then gets to ConnectingToMasterServer value. Is there a better way of doing this?

 

Authentication happens on the Name Server and others, so it's not a good indicator of progress, unless you also check the server it relates to. Skip both Auth* values.

In general it's not that easy to estimate when the connection is fully setup. I would suggest to simply have some activity indicator.

 

Thanks for that, I'll get rid of the auth values.
I'm very much unsure about the activity indicator you mentioned so I'll need some explanation on that!
Thanks!

 

Activity indicator as in spinning wheel, moving dots or other. Just don't show a percentage of "work done" and instead show "activity in the background, please wait".