Best way to override OnClick with OnPointerDown for Toggle?

Questions & Answers
1

I want to execute a toggle’s OnValueChanged method on a OnPointerDown event instead of an OnClick event. Is there an elegant way to do this?

Right now I’m just using an EventTrigger component with a OnPointerDown event on the Toggle GameObject to execute the the method I want, but this gets gross quickly. For one OnClick is still called on the Toggle Component. Yes, I could turn interactable false on the Toggle component, but then this presents the wrong visual state, yada yada yada.

I really just want all the functionality of the toggle, I just want it to be triggered OnPointerDown INSTEAD of OnClick.

2

Make a class that inherits from Toggle and override its stuff…

using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class MyToggle : Toggle 
{
     public override void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData)
     {
         //do nothing... we don't want it do do anything OnClick
     }

     public override void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData)
     {
          //do the stuff it usually does
          base.OnPointerDown(eventData);
          //do the stuff we want it to do
          base.OnSubmit(eventData);
     }     
}

Then take the unity toggle component off, put this on, reassign the target graphic etc.

3

What do you mean with: “Then take the unity toggle component off, put this on, reassign the target graphic etc.”, please explain, I’m new to unity