Detect UI Button Click Event in Update method (169893)

[siddharth3322]

At present Update method of script controls movement of main player. Game HUD panel contains Pause button of game play pause functionality.

When I click on Pause UI Button, player also detects that touch and take its movement regarding that.
So I want to remove this part. So in Update method if I detect this Button click event than I can ignore this irregular movement of player.

How to detect this?

[Humanhoney]

Create public method with boolean input variable. Add to your button EventTrigger component. On your pause button assingn this script. If you need release and pressDown assign one with “true” and other with “false”. Or run method ChangePauseState.

Example:

 private bool isGamePaused= false;
    
    private void Update()
    {
             if(isGamePaused)
             {
                  //Do something...
             }
    }
    
    public void ChangeCurrentPauseState()
    {
          isGamePaused = !isGamePaused;
    }
    
    public void ChangePauseState(bool _value)
    {
          isGamePaused = _value;
    }

[vincismurf]

Or add a listener

`
public Button = but = null;

void Awake()
{
  if(but)
    {
         but.OnClick.AddListener(OnButtonClicked);
    }
}

public void OnButtonClicked()
{
 Debug.Log("Button Clicked");
}
`

[LCStark]

Not sure if it’ll work for touch input, but for mouse clicks I use EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject() to detect when the mouse is over UI element and stop any gameplay actions.

EDIT

using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

...

void Update() {
  if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && !EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject()) {
    // player action
  }
}