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I have a game with a lot of buttons and if for each of them there is a specific pack of other buttons and so on. To use the buttons i made arrays which i filled in the inspector. But for the third page of buttons, i would need about 16 arrays so far and i'm planning to add even more buttons in the futuzre. I also can't use multi dimensional arrys because they don't show up in the inspector. Does anyone have an idea how to store the buttons without using one massive array or a lot of small ones?

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Answer by keroltarr · Feb 28 at 09:46 PM

It sounds like you are doing a bunch of nesting.

You could use the hierarchy for this.

Each button would have a number of child buttons that would be disabled by default.

Whenever a button is clicked a script could then enable all its children.

To navigate you could loop through all a buttons children.

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paul200642 · Feb 28 at 09:52 PM 0

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So, i wouldn't need to make arrays for the GameObjects and could just acces the buttons inside the other buttons?

keroltarr paul200642 · Feb 28 at 11:15 PM 1

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Yes it just depends on how you structure it. If you name your buttons in a particular way you can use Find() to find them by name and from a parent button to get its children. In a script you can use FindObjectsOfType()to find all the buttons and return an array.

paul200642 keroltarr · Feb 28 at 11:50 PM 0

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How exactly would this look like? Find(ParenObject ChildObjectName ) ?

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Answer by xxmariofer · Feb 28 at 09:17 PM

What's the exact issue you are having with the array? That you need to fill manually in the inspector? I would probably go with one script with one array attached to the parent and for each parent have all the child's buttons in the parent array, and that script recursively

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