Put a delay between mouse clicks.

Hello, I am on a little problem that is blocking me. I want to make at the end of the game on the game over screen that the player has time to see the score
by putting a delay of 3 seconds before the next click on the screen by making the mouse click or the screen inactive for a while (3s)


Thanks in advance !

Here is my script but it does not work :

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class delay : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7. var TimeT:float = 0;
8.  
9. function Update ()
10. {
11. TimeT += Time.deltaTime;
12.  
13. if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)))&&TimeT > 3)
14. {
15.     //Other Code
16.     TimeT = 0;
17. }
18. }

 

This is a JS variable declaration, and js has been deprecated for a long time.
If you are following a tutorial, find a new one instead.

This doesn't help us. Why doesn't it work? What happens instead?

 

Thank you for your reply.
Indeed I followed a tutorial. It doesn't work means it doesn't compile, it has errors.

Assets\delay.cs(7,10): error CS1003: Syntax error, ',' expected
Assets\delay.cs(7,11): error CS1002: ; expected
Assets\delay.cs(7,17): error CS1519: Invalid token '=' in class, struct, or interface member declaration
Assets\delay.cs(13,33): error CS1525: Invalid expression term ')'
Assets\delay.cs(13,34): error CS1525: Invalid expression term '&&'
Assets\delay.cs(18,2): error CS1513: } expected

 

ye, abandon the tutorial, it's outdated

 

This is what I'm gonna do. But how do you make a delay between clicks?

 

The code you have is more or less fine once you C#ify it.

var TimeT:float = 0; Needs to turn into float TimeT = 0;

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)))&&TimeT > 3)
has ))) where really only one ) should be

function Update() needs to turn into void Update()

And at the very end you're missing a }

 

Now it compiles without error. But I can click without delay. Thanks anyway !

 

I'm certain this was and is in the scripting forum

 

Thanks, I'll go take a look.

 

It does not matter ! You have already helped me to move forward a bit.

 

Maybe try UniTask
https://github.com/Cysharp/UniTask

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. async UniTaskVoid Start()
3. {
4.         CancellationTokenSource cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
5.         cts.RegisterRaiseCancelOnDestroy(this);
6.         await UniTask.WaitUntil(() => Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0),
7.         cancellationToken: cts.Token);
8.         ShowScorePanel();
9.         await UniTask.Delay(3000, cancellationToken: cts.Token);
10.         await UniTask.WaitUntil(() => Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0),
11.         cancellationToken: cts.Token);
12.         ClosePanel();
13. }
14.  

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Don't use code that you don't understand. It is overly complicated for what you are trying to do anyway

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class ClickCooldown : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     //Default to 3 second cooldown
8.     public float Cooldown = 3f;
9.  
10.     //Used as a count down timer
11.     public float CooldownCountdown = 0f;
12.  
13.     // Start is called before the first frame update
14.     void Start()
15.     {
16.    
17.     }
18.  
19.     // Update is called once per frame
20.     void Update()
21.     {
22.         //if the timer has elapsed
23.         if (CooldownCountdown < 0f)
24.         {
25.             //check if the mouse is being clicked
26.             if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
27.             {
28.                 //reset the cooldown timer
29.                 CooldownCountdown = Cooldown;
30.                 //print a message to the console
31.                 Debug.Log("Registered click");
32.             }
33.         }
34.         else
35.         {
36.             //Countdown the timer with the time past in the last frame
37.             CooldownCountdown -= Time.deltaTime;
38.         }
39.     }
40. }
41.  

One thing to note about this code, is that it's not very accurate in timing. You are going to be overshooting your cooldown
if (CooldownCountdown < 0f)

making it if (CooldownCountdown <= 0f) isn't really going to help either, as the chances of you landing on a frame where the float is exactly 0 is very small. and float comparison is not very accurate because floats are not very accurate.

This means that people with higher fps will have slightly lower cooldowns in practice, so just keep that in mind. It really depends what you are doing if this really matters.

CooldownCountdown will hold the time to how much you overshot. But if you really cared about accuracy that much, you also wouldn't use floats.

 

Thank you for your help and your explanations, I understand better now.