Universal Dialogue State

[boz]

Is there a way, for example, to detect if the Dialogue Window is currently open and active?

Like if I wanted to prevent things from happening in the game if the dialogue window is open, how might I do that?

I feel like I saw some sort of DialogueSystem.dialogueWindowIsOpen or something somewhere, but I can't find it now.

[boz]

Wait, wait, I think I found it: DialogueManager.isConversationActive

Is this the best way to do this?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Yes, that's a way to check if you only need to check once -- such as if the player has pressed a button to open a menu or perform some action.

If you need to check every frame, there's an alternative. You can register methods with the C# events DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted and conversationEnded, or add a script with OnConversationStart and OnConversationEnd special methods to the Dialogue Manager.

[boz]

Oh wow, can I use those like this?

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OnEnable()
{
	DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted += DoThing;
} 

[Tony Li]

Yes, absolutely. A common setup is:

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void OnEnable()
{
    DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted += DoThing;
}

void OnDisable()
{
    DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted -= DoThing;
}

On the other hand, if you only want to do something once for a single conversation, you can do this:

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void OnEnable()
{
    DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted += DoThing;
}

void DoThing(Transform actor)
{
    DialogueManager.instance.conversationStarted -= DoThing;
    // Do the thing here....
}

[boz]

Perrrfect, thank you!

[Tony Li]

Happy to help!