Number of menu elements...

TayannaStudios

Is there a way for me to do a check via an ActionList that would allow me to check whether there are a certain amount of visible elements in a Unity UI menu before deciding on what it should do next? (e.g. if there are less then 10 elements visible in that menu then run another ActionList).

I know there's an ActionList option that can check the number of slots but it doesn't quite do what I need it to do as it requires the element name and using something like an inventory with slots wouldn't work for this.

ChrisIceBox

You can do this with a custom Action.

For a specific Menu, you can get the number of visible elements with:

AC.PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName ("MyMenu").visibleElements.Count

In an Action:

using UnityEngine;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

namespace AC
{

    [System.Serializable]
    public class ActionCheckNumVisElements : ActionCheck
    {

        public string menuName;
        public int numElements;

        public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Menu; } }
        public override string Title { get { return "Check num visible elements"; }}


        public override bool CheckCondition ()
        {
            return AC.PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName(menuName).visibleElements.Count >= numElements;
        }


#if UNITY_EDITOR

        public override void ShowGUI()
        {
            menuName = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Menu name:", menuName);
            numElements = EditorGUILayout.IntField("# of visible elements:", numElements);
        }

        #endif

    }

}

TayannaStudios

Thanks Chris, this seems just what I need, but I need it to check if the amount of visible elements are less than a certain number, so how would I go about that?

ChrisIceBox

Replace >= with <, or just use the "If condition is not met" output socket.