Friedrich Nietzsche.
I doubt good ol' Fritz had "kings" in mind when writing this, but such is life (though, respect for "kings" seem to fall apart lately...) .
Changing from MonoBehaviour to PanelSettings as base class ...
I've started a first refactoring pass today, one of many, as always. I like doing that every time I have a set of working functionalities that I can group together to make things easier to use / handle.
The code above is a part of the class that handles the tooltips in my current prototype game. The PanelSettings class is basically a wrapper for NGUI panels, adding a name and two methods: Show and Hide (which allow for no-brain fade in / fade out).
Together with the PanelManager singleton it makes things incredibly easy. Instead of creating connections via the Unity editor (read: linking panels to objects who might control them), Panels register themselves in the PanelManager to allow for easy access.
To fade in a panel it's simply:
PaneleManager.Show("mypanel");
// or, if you need a callback:
PanelManager.Show("mypanel", CallbackMethod);
As the tooltips need to be faded in out it was a good idea to use what the PanelSettings class has to offer and remove duplicated code from the ActionTooltip class.
... and with this I continue my refactoring saga and have some candy along the way.
-- Oliver / nGFX