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Better Code/Event System for Menu
I am working on a menu that is meant to have buttons that show quotation marks when you select them (like Silent Hill).
Scene View and Heirarchy
Event Trigger (used for both buttons)
I created event triggers inside the "BTN_" objects that change the alpha of the "Quote1" child object from 0 to 1 when the mouse is hovered over and back to 0 when the mouse isn't over the button. Is there a way to make a better event system that also reacts to "wasd" and arrow keys? I'm preferably aiming to organize the menu and triggers in C#, but using components in the inspector is fine.
Packages Used - TextMesh Pro
EDIT: The parent system of my button is:
BTN_ (the button) NewGameBtn (the text) Quote1 (the quotation marks)
You could make a class that inherits from EventTrigger to deal with it. Like so..
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class ButtonController : EventTrigger
{
private string _buttonText;
private Text _buttonTextBox;
private void Start()
{
_buttonTextBox = GetComponentInChildren<Text>();
_buttonText = _buttonTextBox.text;
}
public override void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
{
UpdateButtonText(true);
}
public override void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData eventData)
{
UpdateButtonText(false);
}
public override void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
{
UpdateButtonText(true);
}
public override void OnDeselect(BaseEventData eventData)
{
UpdateButtonText(false);
}
private void UpdateButtonText(bool selected)
{
_buttonTextBox.text = selected ? "\"" + _buttonText + "\"" : _buttonText;
}
}
If you remove the event trigger component and your quote child object, you can just put the above script on the button.
I removed the quotes and the trigger component. I put the code on the button and if I move my mouse over the button or click it, nothing happens. I forgot to mention that the "NewGameBtn" object that's inside the main "BTN_" object is the text itself.
Is it better to use this code for the normal Unity UI Text?
I am also getting two NullReferenceException errors that point to lines 14 and 42
14:"_buttonText = _buttonTextBox.text"
42: this function - "_buttonTextBox.text = selected ..." inside the UpdateButtonText bool.
That code is for the Unity UI text. Create a new standard button and try it. All you need to do with that code is change the text component of a normal button to your font and shade of red. If you don't have a text component on the button, the code will not work as it is looking for one.
It works for the mouse, but what about using the arrow keys and wasd?
