OnMouseDown for right mouse click without being hacky?

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Hi Unity people!

I'm building a 2D puzzle game with GameObjects that can be clicked on. My GameObjects have a script with the OnMouseDown method implemented to handle left-clicking. However, I also want to handle right-clicking, which doesn't trigger OnMouseDown.

I've seen some suggestions that look like the following:

void OnMouseOver() {
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1)) {
        Debug.Log("Right click on this object");
    }
}

If this is still the best solution in Unity 2017, I can live with it, but all the suggestions I saw were really old (the newest was in 2013), so I'm hoping there's something cleaner available now that I've missed. Anyone got anything?

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Answer by elenzil · Sep 28, 2017 at 10:15 PM

Use UGUI's EventTrigger.

override OnPointerDown(), which gives you a PointerEvent, which contains an InputButton member "button", which tells you left/right/middle.

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jake_card · Sep 28, 2017 at 10:18 PM 0

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Does this apply to GameObjects? I might be missing something, but it looks like this is just for GUI stuff.

elenzil jake_card · Sep 29, 2017 at 09:12 PM 0

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this is just for GUI stuff

that's true. but maybe you could stick a GUI element over/under the whole scene and when you catch a R$$anonymous$$B click you could do a raycast.

OnMouseDown for right mouse click without being hacky?

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