Selecting buttons through the keyboard
Often in games, there are menus that have shortcuts as well. For example, if the player has to use a skill quickly, he needs an easier way to access it. In general, where there is the possibility within the UI to choose more than one selectable element, such as buttons and toggles, it is possible to select them using a keyboard shortcut.
This recipe will teach you how to detect when a key is pressed and select a specific UI element by creating a script that is able to be generic enough to be placed on every UI element without changing the code.
How to do it...
- To begin, create a new panel. Right-click on Hierarchy panel and then go to UI | Panel. We can also rename it to keep the project names ordered.
- Next, ...
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