How to Simulate Focus Loss in editor?

Unity Engine
1

Pretty straight forward question with apparently no answer online. The only answer I have seen is to alt tab out of Unity but that does not work. Any help is appreciated.

2

Works all day long. All you need is to click off the game window, on Unity or anything. You probably don’t have the script you think running.

using UnityEngine;

// @kurtdekker - drop this on a GameObject to report focus changes

public class oaf : MonoBehaviour
{
    void OnApplicationFocus( bool focus)
    {
        Debug.Log( "oaf:" + focus);
    }
}

If that doesn’t work then maybe you’re using a newer version of Unity that has some brand-new crazy player setting to turn this off but I suspect not. :slight_smile:

3

For me I have:

Switch(focus)
{
case true:
Debug.Log(something);
break;
case false:
Debug.Log(Something else);
break;
}

and only the case true code runs. No matter what I do, alt-tab or click out of play window.

4

I think I figured out the problem. I was using the device simulator to run the game. when I switched to game view, the code ran. Must be a bug with device simulator.

5

The Device Simulator still doesn’t get “lost focus” events when clicking outside the simulator view.
Is there a different way to simulate “lost focus” in the device simulator?

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