New UI system. How to focus on input fields.

Questions & Answers
1

I’m checking out the new unity 4.6.0b17. It’s very similar to NGUI to use.

I’m using input fields and can’t figure out how to focus on a targeted input field if I click on some label anywhere on the screen which is meant to focus the targeted input field on click. I can’t seem to find any such method in the method drop down list for input fields (I’m using the event trigger component).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

4

You also may need to activate it for the cursor to show up:

lInputField.Select();
lInputField.ActivateInputField();
3

After spending about an hour on this, for me, following seems to work:

nameField.Select();
5

be careful not to use Select() or ActivateInputField() inside awake methods… if so change them to Start.

2

Hi guys!

I was looking for that too, and I made this to get the visual focus and start typing on Unity 4.6b20:

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(myInputField.gameObject, null);
myInputField.OnPointerClick(new PointerEventData(EventSystem.current));

I passed null to the BaseEventData parameter on SetSelectedGameObject, and I called the OnPointerClick by sending a new PointerEventData of the current event system.

6

NEVER DO THIS

Input.Field.gameobject.setActive(false);

try to disable the Image component, or change the alpha to 0