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Help making multiple buttons do a specific set of actions in any order pressed
Hello,
I have 9 buttons with access to the same script that are all on the scene at once. I want to make pressing the buttons do a predetermined set of actions in the script in any order pressed. For example, if I have an int, no matter which of the 9 buttons I press, pressing a button will add 1 to the int, then pressing another button will add 2, and the third could subtract 3 and so on. The last button pressed will always display the int and display a new button to reset the whole thing.
Hard to picture what your buttons look like from the description, but if what you are asking is how to identify the different buttons you might try assigning a unique tag to each one. The tag will let you determine what action to take.
The buttons are just the default unity buttons sorted in a 3x3 square, labelled button 1-9. I have lines of code such as "Debug.Log("first button pressed")", "Debug.Log("second button pressed")" and so on.
Whether I press button 1, button 4 or any other button first, I want whichever button I press first to always do the Debug.Log("first button pressed") code. Then the second button (which can be any of the other 8 buttons) upon being pressed would do the Debug.Log("second button pressed") code.
The tag wouldn't work because it means that the button I press will do the same command no matter what. Each button would be able to do all 9 lines of code, and would only do the line based on what order it was pressed in.
Now it makes sense. What you need is a state machine and each button press moves you into the next state. In your case that could be a simple counter that starts at 0 and each button press increments the state value.
You then perform the function you want based on the new state value.
I totally forgot about state machines! Embarrassing. I'll make a simple counter state as you recommended. Thank you for the help!
