Input Detection

Questions & Answers
1

Hi all,

Basically, we have a game and there are two types of input; key board & mouse or controller. I’m currently making a singleton to detect whether the user is using one or the other input type, so here’s the question, is there a way of detecting certain input from the difference devices?

Thank you (in advance)

3

So this is what I’ve come up with … (pretty inefficient but until there’s a better way) …

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class InputControl : MonoBehaviour 
{
    //*********************//
    // Public member data  //
    //*********************//


    //*********************//
    // Private member data //
    //*********************//

    public enum eInputState
    {
        MouseKeyboard,
        Controler
    };
    private eInputState m_State = eInputState.MouseKeyboard;

    //*************************//
    // Unity member methods    //
    //*************************//

    void OnGUI()
    {
        switch( m_State )
        {
            case eInputState.MouseKeyboard:
                if(isControlerInput())
                {
                    m_State = eInputState.Controler;
                    Debug.Log("DREAM - JoyStick being used");
                }
                break;
            case eInputState.Controler:
                if (isMouseKeyboard())
                {
                    m_State = eInputState.MouseKeyboard;
                    Debug.Log("DREAM - Mouse & Keyboard being used");
                }
                break;
        }
    }
 
    //***************************//
    // Public member methods     //
    //***************************//

    public eInputState GetInputState()
    {
        return m_State;
    }

    //****************************//
    // Private member methods     //
    //****************************//

    private bool isMouseKeyboard()
    {
        // mouse & keyboard buttons
        if (Event.current.isKey ||
            Event.current.isMouse)
        {
            return true;
        }
        // mouse movement
        if( Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") != 0.0f ||
            Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") != 0.0f )
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private bool isControlerInput()
    {
        // joystick buttons
        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button0)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button1)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button2)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button3)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button4)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button5)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button6)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button7)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button8)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button9)  ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button10) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button11) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button12) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button13) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button14) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button15) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button16) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button17) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button18) ||
           Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Joystick1Button19) )
        {
            return true;
        }

        // joystick axis
        if(Input.GetAxis("XC Left Stick X") != 0.0f ||
           Input.GetAxis("XC Left Stick Y") != 0.0f ||
           Input.GetAxis("XC Triggers") != 0.0f ||
           Input.GetAxis("XC Right Stick X") != 0.0f ||
           Input.GetAxis("XC Right Stick Y") != 0.0f )
        {
            return true;
        }
        
        return false;
    }
}
2

I haven’t tried it before but maybe you can use

if(Input.GetButtonDown(KeyCode.JoystickButton0))

and

if(Input.anyKeyDown)

second one should be detecting only key and mouse clicks and first one should be detecting one joystick button.

It’s not exactly what you wanted but it partially works :slight_smile: