CooldownButton

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A selectable extension to provide a "cooldown" capability, preventing the button from being usable until a specified amount of time has passed.

Overview

In several games, a power-up or cooldown logic is required when clicking on a button, this control enables that behaviour in a single reusable script.

This can be attached to any control implementing "Selectable" behaviour, such as:

Button
Toggle
Non-Drawing Graphic

In the example "Cooldown" scene, it also demonstrates how to pair up this control with other effects such as the SoftMask effect and the native Unity image effects. Showing how to add a fading/growing style effect when clicked.

Lastly, the control also has "extra" click detection allowing further feedback in it's use, so if a user clicks on the control when it is "cooling down", you can optionally apply additional feedback to inform the users that it can't be clicked as it is cooling down.

Properties

The properties of the UILineConnector control are as follows:

Property	Description
Cooldown Timeout	The amount of time the cooldown takes effect. Defaults to seconds
Cooldown Speed	The speed at which the cooldown expires.
Cooldown Active	(Read only)Is the Cooldown active (can be stopped with the CancelCooldown method)
Cooldown In Effect	Is the Cooldown active (can be paused with PauseCooldown method and restarted with the RestartCooldown method)
Cooldown Time Elapsed	The amount of time (float) that has passed since the cooldown started
Cooldown Time Remaining	The amount of time (float) remaining on the cooldown
Cooldown Percent Remaining	The percentage of cooldown remaining
Cooldown Percent Complete	The percentage of cooldown completed
On Cooldown Start (event)	The Event fires when the user clicks on the control and starts the cooldown
On Button Click during Cooldown (event)	The Event fires when the user clicks on the control while it is cooling down
On Cooldown Finish (event)	The Event fires when the cooldown time has finished

Usage

The CooldownButton control is available as a Game Component menu in "UI / Extensions / Cooldown Button".

Video Demo

Click to play

Credits and Donation

Credit SimonDarksideJ

External links

N/A

Wiki

Unity-UI-Extensions / Controls / CooldownButton