How do I check if you're clicking something besides a button?

Questions & Answers
1

My game has something happen whenever you click the screen. I don’t want that to apply if you’re just pressing the buttons. Is there any way to check if you’re just clicking anywhere else?

2

If it is a mobile app (touchscreen only), and assuming that hitting ANYWHERE on screen regardless of if a button is hit or not, you want something to happen, you could simply do this:

		if (Input.touchCount > 0)
			DoSomething ();

But if you want it only to happen when your not pressing a button on the UI it gets more complicated, as you have to check for GUI hits first, then if it was not on a button or whatever, only then do you have it do the… other thing?

I won’t write the (working) code to do that for you - but here is sort of how I think about it:

	bool buttonTapped = false;

	void Update()
	{
		if (Input.touchCount > 0) // check for any touch at all anywhere
		{
			if (!buttonTapped)
				DoSomething ();
		}
	}

	void ButtonTapped() // in the inspector we setup this method to be called when a buttons hit
	{
		DoStuffThisButtonDoes ();
		buttonTapped = true;
	}

Of course after your button is tapped, and it does whatever it does, you would need to set buttonTapped back to false to allow the… other thing to happen :smiley: