Buttons

#1

Hello,

So I found the button tutorial thread but it isn’t a tutorial unfortunately… The documents on the looking glass site are informative, but I was hoping to get something for scripting beginners. My buttons don’t work, I have resorted to relying on the alpha keys. Do I need to do something special, such as make my own script based off the button manager? All I want are for the buttons to trigger animations essentially.

Currently they use Alpha 1 and 2 to move back and forth through animations/scenes. Can someone help me? I know it is kind of a noob question, so forgive me.

#2

Are you working with Unity?

#3

yes its unity, thanks for the repllyy

#4

Hi! You should be able to include at the top of your script “using LookingGlass” and then, wherever you need to use the Looking Glass buttons, go “if(ButtonManager.GetButtonDown(ButtonType.Square))” or whichever you want to have an event trigger on button presses.

#5

I rapidly put this script together to access the buttons:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;
using HoloPlay;

namespace HoloPlay.Extras
{
    public class LookingGlassButtons : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public UnityEvent ButtonSquarePressed;
        public UnityEvent ButtonSquareUp;
        public UnityEvent ButtonSquareDown;

        public UnityEvent ButtonLeftPressed;
        public UnityEvent ButtonLeftUp;
        public UnityEvent ButtonLeftDown;

        public UnityEvent ButtonRightPressed;
        public UnityEvent ButtonRightUp;
        public UnityEvent ButtonRightDown;

        public UnityEvent ButtonCirclePressed;
        public UnityEvent ButtonCircleUp;
        public UnityEvent ButtonCircleDown;

        void Update()
        {
            //
            // Looking Glass Button: Squere /  1 (simulated by Key: 1)
            //

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButton(LookingGlass.ButtonType.SQUARE) == true)
            {
                //Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Square Pressed");
                ButtonSquarePressed.Invoke();
            }

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonUp(LookingGlass.ButtonType.SQUARE) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Square Up");
                ButtonSquareUp.Invoke();
            }


            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonDown(LookingGlass.ButtonType.SQUARE) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Square Down");
                ButtonSquareDown.Invoke();
            }



            //
            // Looking Glass Button: Left Arrow/  2 (simulated by Key: 2)
            //

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButton(LookingGlass.ButtonType.LEFT) == true)
            {
                //Debug.Log("LookingGlass: LeftArrow Pressed");
                ButtonLeftPressed.Invoke();
            }

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonUp(LookingGlass.ButtonType.LEFT) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: LeftArrow Up");
                ButtonLeftUp.Invoke();
            }


            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonDown(LookingGlass.ButtonType.LEFT) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: LeftArrow Down");
                ButtonLeftDown.Invoke();
            }



            //
            // Looking Glass Button: Right Arrow /  3 (simulated by Key: 3)
            //

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButton(LookingGlass.ButtonType.RIGHT) == true)
            {
                //Debug.Log("LookingGlass: RightArrow Pressed");
                ButtonRightPressed.Invoke();
            }

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonUp(LookingGlass.ButtonType.RIGHT) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: RightArrow Up");
                ButtonRightUp.Invoke();
            }


            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonDown(LookingGlass.ButtonType.RIGHT) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: RightArrow Down");
                ButtonRightDown.Invoke();
            }



            //
            // Looking Glass Button: Circle /  4 (simulated by Key: 4)
            //

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButton(LookingGlass.ButtonType.CIRCLE) == true)
            {
                //Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Circle Pressed");
                ButtonCirclePressed.Invoke();
            }

            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonUp(LookingGlass.ButtonType.CIRCLE) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Circle Up");
                ButtonCircleUp.Invoke();
            }


            if (LookingGlass.ButtonManager.GetButtonDown(LookingGlass.ButtonType.CIRCLE) == true)
            {
                Debug.Log("LookingGlass: Circle Down");
                ButtonCircleDown.Invoke();
            }

        }
    }
}

You can put that script on some object (for example a nullobject somewhere in the scene) and you get for each button some events where you could link in your own scripts. I hope this helps to get started.

#6

you are both amazing! and thank you for doing all that for me. It means a lot. I will utilize this.

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