Handling Joystick and Button at once

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Hey.
I am trying to make a mobile game where you move a ball using a joystick and make it jump using a button. Both the joystick and the button work, but not simultaneously. I checked online to find a solution for multi-touch input and got as answers using a for loop or a foreach loop which would handle any touch in the array, however, it didn’t work in my case. I use OnDrag(), OnPointerDown() and OnPointerUp() for the joystick as well as OnClick() for the button. I hope someone can help me.

The scripts I shared are quite long, please bear with me.

Here is the script handling the joystick:

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

public class Joystick : MonoBehaviour, IDragHandler, IPointerUpHandler, IPointerDownHandler
{
	Vector2 pos;
	private Image back; //back is a circle used as the background of the joystick
	private Image fore; //fore is a child of back, it is a small circle on which you would drag your finger to make the ball move
	public Transform ball;
	public int force = 2;
	public GameObject button;
	public Touch t;

	public void Update()
	{
		Debug.Log( "Joysick fingerId = " + t.fingerId );
	}

	private void Start()
	{
		back = GetComponent<Image>();
		fore = transform.GetChild( 0 ).GetComponent<Image>();
	}

	public virtual void OnDrag( PointerEventData ped )
	{
		if ( RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle( back.rectTransform, ped.position,
		                                                             ped.pressEventCamera, out pos ) )
		{
			pos.x = ( pos.x / back.rectTransform.sizeDelta.x ) * 2;
			pos.y = ( pos.y / back.rectTransform.sizeDelta.y ) * 2;
			pos = ( pos.magnitude > 1 ) ? pos.normalized : pos;
			fore.rectTransform.anchoredPosition = new Vector3( pos.x * ( back.rectTransform.sizeDelta.x / 2),
			                                                  pos.y * ( back.rectTransform.sizeDelta.y / 2 ) );
		}
	}

	public virtual void OnPointerDown( PointerEventData ped )
	{
		OnDrag( ped );
	}

	public virtual void OnPointerUp( PointerEventData ped )
	{
		pos = Vector2.zero;
		fore.rectTransform.anchoredPosition = Vector2.zero;
	}

	public void FixedUpdate()
	{
		Vector2 input = pos;
		ball.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce( input.x * force, 0, input.y * force );
	}

	public float Horizontal()
	{
		if ( pos.x != 0 )
		{
			return pos.x;
		}
		else
		{
			return Input.GetAxis( "Horizontal" );
		}
	}

	public float Vertical()
	{
		if ( pos.y != 0 )
		{
			return pos.y;
		}
		else
		{
			return Input.GetAxis( "Vertical" );
		}
	}
}

And here is the script for the button:

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

public class Button : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform ball;
public int force = 89;
public int jumpCount = 0;
public GameObject joystick;
public Touch t;

public void JumpF()
{
	//for and foreach loops didn't work

	/*foreach ( Touch t in Input.touches )
	{
		if ( jumpCount < 2 )
		{
			ball.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce( Vector3.up * force );
			jumpCount += 1;
			Debug.Log( t.fingerId );
			Debug.Log( t.tapCount );
		}
	}*/

	for ( int i = 0; i <= Input.touchCount; i++ )
	{
		Debug.Log( "Jump" ); //I removed the jump functionality and replaced it with a Debug.Log() function for debugging purposes
		joystick.GetComponent<Joystick>().StopAllCoroutines();
	}
}

public void Update()
{
	Debug.Log( " Button fingerId = " + t.fingerId );
}
}

Thank you for your attention.

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I used a script called SimpleButton.cs from a great package called CN Controls ( link to asset store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/15233 ) and I was able to use both button and joystick at the same time