Question by TSHayter · May 23, 2017 at 06:25 AM · coroutine coroutines while while-loop adding

Coroutine or While loop that you can reset/add time too?

Hello,

So I have some text that displays the current amount of points gained which then is made inactive after X seconds. Basically, gaining points enables a canvas element and starts a coroutine that disables it after X time.

What I want is that the 2 seconds of display time is reset every time the the more points function is called during those 2 seconds.

So you gain 500 points, then after 1.5 sec you gain another 500 points, the score of 1000 then is displayed for 2 seconds. What seems to be the case right now is that the score of 1000 is displayed for only .5 sec - as far as I can tell.

It seems you can't add additional time to a coroutine that's already active but I found some stuff from 2011 ( http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/197259/extending-the-time-of-a-yield-waitforseconds.html ) that maybe has the answer, the only problem is that this is super old code and causes errors.

Does anyone know how I might go about doing this? The language is C#.

I would still settle so that each call of gaining points simply adds to the remaining display time rather than resetting it. Resetting it would be preferable.

Thanks

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