Finding Currently Selected Button

Question

I have been trying to find an aswer to this for hours. I am trying to get the button GameObject that accessed a function on one of my scripts. I just need to know which button accessed the script. Please help in UNITYSCRIPT!

First of all, how many different buttons that is accesing to script? — Thalthanas, Jul 27 '17 at 06:14
So you want know to what button you need to press to invoke a function? — Ignacio Alorre, Jul 27 '17 at 06:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '17 at 06:25

You can make a public string variable in the main script which will be hold the name of the button which accesed the script

public string clickedButtonName;

In buttons you are gonna add another script which will updates clickedButtonName variable with GetComponent

Pseudo code

Button Script that will be called on Click;

public Gameobject yourMainScriptObject;

public void buttonClicked()
{
     yourMainScriptObject.GetComponent<YourMainScript>().clickedButtonName = gameObject.name.toString();
}

So when a button is clicked they will update the string value on the main script with their name.

Hope this helps! Cheers!

This solution is good enough for what I need. This will seriously cut a lot of lines out of my script. Thank you! — Andrew Friedman, Jul 28 '17 at 00:13

Finding Currently Selected Button

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