Unity UI C# Flashing Text Effect

Simple C# script to create flashing UI text effect.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

// © 2017 TheFlyingKeyboard and released under MIT License
// theflyingkeyboard.net

//Shows string and then hides it with time step

public class FlashingText: MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField] private Text textToUse;
    [SerializeField] private bool useThisText = false;
    [SerializeField] private bool useThisTextText = false;
    [SerializeField] private string flashingString;

    [SerializeField] private float textPause = 0.5f;

    private void Start()
    {
        if (useThisText)
        {
            textToUse = GetComponent<Text>();
        }

        if (useThisTextText)
        {
            flashingString = textToUse.text;
        }

        textToUse.text = "";

        StartCoroutine(TypeText(textToUse, flashingString, textPause));
    }

    private IEnumerator TypeText(Text text, string stringToUse, float timePause)
    {
        bool show = true;

        while (true)
        {
            if (show)
            {
                textToUse.text = stringToUse;
            }
            else
            {
                textToUse.text = "";
            }

            show = !show;

            yield return 0;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timePause);
        }
    }

    public void WriteText(Text newText = null, string newTextToShow = null, float newTextPause = -1.0f)
    {
        if (newText != null && newTextToShow != null && newTextPause > 0.0f)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(newText, newTextToShow, newTextPause));
            return;
        }

        if (newText != null && newTextToShow != null)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(newText, newTextToShow, textPause));
            return;
        }

        if (newText != null && newTextPause > 0.0f)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(newText, flashingString, newTextPause));
            return;
        }

        if (newTextToShow != null && newTextPause > 0.0f)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(textToUse, newTextToShow, newTextPause));
            return;
        }

        if (newTextToShow != null)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(textToUse, newTextToShow, textPause));
            return;
        }

        if (newTextPause > 0.0f)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TypeText(textToUse, flashingString, textPause));
            return;
        }
    }
}