Add a Select Entry in a Event Trigger doesn't work ?

Hey guys !
I'm currently working on some UI and I'm creating a bunch of buttons by script.
In those buttons I add an event trigger , and until now, I only add in this Event Trigger a PointerEnter Event.

And it's working great, but now I would like to do the same with a Select Event but for some reason it doesn't seem to work.

Here is the part of the script where I try to do that:

Code (CSharp):

1. //CREATE ACTION OF EVENT TRIGGER
2.             EventTrigger trigger = cloneMusicPrefab.GetComponentInChildren<EventTrigger>();
3.             EventTrigger.Entry entry = new EventTrigger.Entry();
4.             entry.eventID = EventTriggerType.PointerEnter;
5.  
6.             entry.callback.AddListener(delegate { MouseOnButton(trackdef, trackdef); });
7.             trigger.triggers.Add(entry);
8.  
9.             EventTrigger.Entry newEntry = new EventTrigger.Entry();
10.             newEntry.eventID = EventTriggerType.Select;
11.  
12.             newEntry.callback.AddListener(delegate { MouseOnButton(trackdef, trackdef); });
13.             trigger.triggers.Add(newEntry);

The first part is for the PointerEnter and it works, the second part is for the Select and it doesn't work.

If anyone has a solution, I would gladly take it !

Thanks

 

There's probably a way to do it in much more cleaner manner.

Also, you can use Button.onClick listener instead or add events beforehand in the prefab & instantiate it instead of creating buttons.

 

Thanks for your answer,
but why would I use onClick when it's not what I want ? I want to do something when the mouse is on the button or the button is selected.

Also I'm already instantiating prefabs of my buttons, but I can't put a gameobject in the BaseEventData of the Event Trigger in a prefab.
That's why I'm doing it by script, but for a reason I don't know the Select won't work when the others work.

 

If anyone is interested, I managed to do what I wanted to do by creating a new script in which I use ISelectHandler and
created a method OnSelect and adding this new script when I create my button using AddComponent.

This way it's working fine !

 

this is the correct approach, mainly cause of the major flaw in how Unity Event Trigger works. Try to never use them.

Why? because that Component will catch ALL IEventSystemHander callbacks that it can possibly catch... even if the it doesn't have a listener assigned to that callback. This means that it will consume any event the eventsystem tries to send past it without bubbling it. You may not have set it up to handle onClicks but it will gladly block a parent button from receiving that onclick, or any select, submit, cancel, and move events breaking keyboard navigation