Changing GUITexture's position through code (relative to screen)

Archived Forums Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to change a GUITexture’s position (on the x axis) through code upon keyboard input. I can’t seem to be able to change the guiTexture’s pixelInset’s X position for some reason. Here’s some code for you to further investigate:

`using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class GUITextureScript : MonoBehaviour
{

public GUITexture texture;

bool menuOut;

// Use this for initialization
void Start ()
{
	menuOut = false;
	texture.guiTexture.pixelInset = new Rect(0, 0, 1, 1);
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update ()
{
	if (Input.GetKeyDown ("m"))
	{
		showMenu ();
	}
}

void showMenu()
{
	Debug.Log ("Button M");
	if (!menuOut)
	{
		//texture.guiTexture.pixelInset.x += 10;
		menuOut = true;
	}
	else
	{
		//guiTexture.pixelInset.x -= 10;
		menuOut = false;
	}
}

}
`

1 Answer

1
2

Found it. pixelInset must always be reset as a new Rect variable in order for the changes to apply. Here’s the end result:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class GUITextureScript : MonoBehaviour
{
	public GUITexture texture;
	bool menuOut;
	
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start ()
	{
		menuOut = false;
		texture.guiTexture.pixelInset = new Rect(600, 0, 1, 1);
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update ()
	{
		if (Input.GetKeyDown ("m"))
		{
			showMenu ();
		}
	}
	
	void showMenu()
	{
		float texPosY = texture.guiTexture.pixelInset.y;
		float texWidth = texture.guiTexture.pixelInset.width;
		float texHeight = texture.guiTexture.pixelInset.height;
		if (!menuOut)
		{
			texture.guiTexture.pixelInset = new Rect(400.0f, texPosY, texWidth, texHeight);
			menuOut = true;
		}
		else
		{
			texture.guiTexture.pixelInset = new Rect(600.0f, texPosY, texWidth, texHeight);
			menuOut = false;
		}
	}
}