How can I do that with Queue<string>?

Hi!

I want to make a dialog and i'm having some problems. The sentences come with a animation, the words are being inserted 1 by 1. I want to make that when I click on the Continue button and there is a animation of a sentence i want to make the system end the sentence instead of going for the next one without showing the full sentence. I have problems to do that because I dont know how to make a definition of the string value sentence and show it with the current sentece of my Queue string. Is it possible?

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6.  
7. public class DialogueManager : MonoBehaviour {
8.  
9.     public Text nameText;
10.     public Text dialogueText;
11.     public Queue<string> sentences;
12.     public bool canClick = true;
13.  
14.    
15.  
16.  
17.     public Animator animator;
18.     // Use this for initialization
19.     void Start () {
20.  
21.         sentences = new Queue<string> ();
22.        
23.     }
24.    
25.     public void StartDialogue (Dialogue dialogue){
26.  
27.  
28.         animator.SetBool ("IsOpen", true);
29.         nameText.text = dialogue.name;
30.  
31.         sentences.Clear ();
32.  
33.         foreach (string sentence in dialogue.sentences) {
34.  
35.             sentences.Enqueue (sentence);
36.         }
37.  
38.        
39.        
40.         DisplayNextSentence ();
41.     }
42.  
43. //click with the continue button
44.     public void DisplayNextSentence()
45.     {
46.  
47.         if (canClick == false)
48.         {
49.             StopAllCoroutines();
50.          
51.             /* string sentence = ??;  the current value of the queue so i can show the text that is currently showing with animation */
52.  
53.  
54.             canClick = true;
55.  
56.         }
57.  
58.        else  if (canClick == true) {
59.             canClick = false;
60.  
61.        
62.        
63.  
64.        
65.  
66.  
67.         if (sentences.Count == 0)
68.         {
69.  
70.             EndDialogue();
71.             return;
72.         }
73.  
74.         string sentence = sentences.Dequeue();
75.      
76.        
77.      
78.      
79.        
80.  
81.         StartCoroutine(TypeSentence(sentence));
82.  
83.  
84.      
85.  
86.  
87.     }
88.  
89.     }
90.  
91.     IEnumerator TypeSentence (string sentence){
92.  
93.         dialogueText.text = "";
94.         foreach (char letter in sentence.ToCharArray()) {
95.  
96.             dialogueText.text += letter;
97.            
98.             yield return null;
99.         }
100.         canClick = true;
101.  
102.        
103.     }
104.  
105.     void EndDialogue(){
106.  
107.         Debug.Log ("End Of conversation");
108.         animator.SetBool ("IsOpen", false);
109.     }
110. }

 

Are you saying that, if

TypeSentence

is currently executing and the continue button is clicked, you want to terminate the

TypeSentence

function immediately?

If so, you can add a public method (called say

StopWritingSentence

). That method would stop the internal Coroutine from running.

You would need to hook your button click code through to

StopWritingSentence

. The Coroutine can be stopped either directly by a handle/ string or using StopAllCoroutines (which you are already using).

Or are you wanting something other than that?

 

Yes, I am. I stop the Coroutine but the problem is that the character set is stopped with it. So I want to print the entire sentence but I dont know how to take it as a string to show it.

 

I see. You could maybe try something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator TypeSentence(string sentence)
2. {
3.     dialogueText.text = "";
4.     m_showWholeSentence = false;
5.  
6.     foreach (char letter in sentence.ToCharArray())
7.     {
8.         dialogueText.text += letter;
9.  
10.         if(!m_showWholeSentence)
11.             yield return null;
12.     }
13.     canClick = true;
14. }
15.  
16. bool m_showWholeSentence;

Now, when the click is detected, you no longer need to stop the Coroutine, simply set

m_showWholeSentence

to true. The Coroutine will rapidly print out the remainder of the sentence (without yielding) and will terminate naturally.

 

Wow. Really thank you. I was having a headache with that thing.

 

Glad it helped out.