Global Variable issue - Please help! should be simple.

Hi,

I am having some issues with a global variable. Please see if you can solve this for me.

I have the global var set up as below in a script called GlobalValues (this is not attached to a gameobject)

In a separate script attached to a GUI texture I check this variable and if is set to '3' then I change the image of the GUI,as below

Now, My problem seems to lie in my next script. This script below is attached to another GUI texture. On holding down the mouse key it plays an animation of a gameobject, and reverses it if the button is lifted.
What I want to do is change the global value to '3' when the animation is playing.
So I use the code

to change it to a '3'.
If this is lose in the script (not in a function) it works, but under an if statement or as it is below the request to change the value to a '3' seems to be ignored.

I am sure this is simple to a trained eye.

I hope you can help, Thanks

 

The if statement needs to be inside function Update.

 

I tried your suggestion but the result was the same.
Value is not changed to 3.

Any other ides?

 

Try the following. I've also put some other lines inside functions that look as if they need to be there. The other thing I have done is add a print statement. If that appears, then your if statement is working. You can safely remove the print line once you know that.

Code (csharp):

1. var theMainCharacter: GameObject;
2.  
3. private var gui : GUITexture;
4.  
5.  
6. function Start(){
7.  
8. gui = GetComponent( GUITexture );
9. theMainCharacter = GameObject.FindWithTag("Man");
10. theMainCharacter.animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Once;
11. }
12.  
13. function Update () {
14.  
15. if (theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].enabled == true)
16. {
17. GlobalValues.buttonheld=3;
18. print ("the if statement is working");
19. }
20.  
21. if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
22. {
23.  
24. if(theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].time<0)
25. theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].time=0; // onEnter
26.  
27. theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].speed = 1;
28. theMainCharacter.animation.CrossFade("Anim1"); 
29. }
30. else
31. {
32.  
33. if(theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].normalizedTime>1)
34.  
35. theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].normalizedTime=1; // onExit
36.  
37. theMainCharacter.animation["Anim1"].speed = -1;
38. theMainCharacter.animation.CrossFade("Anim1"); 
39. }
40.  
41.  
42. }

 

Thanks for your input.
The print ("the if statement is working"); shows but even without clicking the button.
It also seem to repeat over and over, yet still buttonheld will not set to 3.

PLEASE!!!! I would love to solve this