Add an Icon next to a text inside a button Unity 5.6

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1

Hello,

I would like to add an icon next to a text inside a button in Unity 5.6 dynamically by the c# script like this:
98616-css3-buttons.png

within my script i have added a text inside a button but for adding an icon i don’t know, how can i do it?My script:

GameObject button = Instantiate(BtnTemplate)as GameObject;   
button.GetComponent<ButtonListButton().SetText("Text");

In ButtonListButton script:

 public void SetText(string
strText){
        tmpStr = strText;
        BtnTxt.text = strText;

I instantiate the button dynamically and i want to add icon and text inside a button dynamically too.

Thanks.

2

Interesting topic.

You can do this :

public class ButtonListButton : MonoBehaviour // or UIBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] Image buttonImage;
    
    public void SetText (string strText, Sprite sprite)
    {
        buttonImage.sprite = sprite;
        tmpStr = strText;
        BtnTxt.text = strText;
    }
}

The ButtonListButton component would need to reference the Image component you want to change.
You could also create a “table” or images using a Dictionary, so that instead of passing a Sprite, you would only pass an index or key.

Dictionary <string, Sprite> buttonsSprites = new Dictionary <string, Sprite>();

public void SetSprite (string spriteName)
{
    buttonImage.sprite = buttonsSprites[spriteName]
}

Dictionaries are not serialisable though, so you’ll have to build it.
You could do that simply using sprites names.