[C#] Sending UI Button Name As Parameter On Click

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I currently have a game that revolves a lot around the UI, and buttons, while in battle. Currently, my method of doing things is making a method for each button and doing whatever needs to be done from there. For example, my button “Attack” draws the method “AttackPressed()” on click. This worked well until I began to realize that, down the road, all these button are going to require a lot of methods. So, I wondered how I could get the button name I was clicking and save it in a variable to load from a parameter, but I don’t know how I’d go about doing this. I looked up all the methods for the button but they don’t seem to do what I need. Will I have to code this myself, or is there an easier way?

Also, another question that’s not really related to scripting, but what’s the best way to organize a UI? Currently, I’ve been using a system where I disable and enable a canvas. The canvas’s are split between a system of sections, each section has it’s own canvas for me to enable/disable. I feel like there’s an easier way of doing things, but I don’t know of any other methods. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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Please help

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I’ve been trying multiple solutions to this, combing through Unity Answers, reading about the Unity UI system and watching the videos provided, etc, to no avail.

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using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class ButtonTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void TestFunction (Button b)
    {
        Debug.Log(b.name);
    }
  
}

Assign this function to the button’s onclick event, and drag the button into the function’s parameter field in the inspector…