Is there any way to make a virtual keyboard (QWERTY)

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Hello.

I'm working on a simple game and I'm looking to make the controls player configurable. Is there any way to make a QWERTY keyboard pop up when a button is popped, with clickable buttons which could then be stored in a variable?

Thankyou, Callum.

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I'm still getting to grips with Unity's GUI system myself so take my suggestion with a pinch of salt, it may not be the best approach.

Your keyboard could just be a bunch of buttons and when you click on them you'd add that character onto an existing string variable. So:

var playerName : String;

function OnGUI () {

  if(GUILayout.Button ("A")){
    playerName = playerName + "A";
  }
}

Although I can see the above as becoming quite cumbersome. Eric's suggestion of an array might be more compact?

For laying it out as a keyboard, the `BeginHorizontal/EndHorizontal` control groups sound ideal for this.

The GUI docs: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Game%20Interface%20Elements.html

[EDIT]

I couldn't resist trying this so the following is what I came up with. You'll need to tweak the positioning.

var playerName : String;
var alphabet : String[];

function OnGUI () {

  GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
    for(var i : String in alphabet){
        if(GUILayout.Button (i)){
            playerName = playerName + i;
        }
    }
  GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

  GUILayout.BeginArea(Rect(0,100,200,100));
    GUILayout.Label(playerName);
  GUILayout.EndArea();
}
2

There are many ways; possibly the easiest would be to create a grid of buttons using GUI.Button/GUI.Label and an array of letters.