CallbackContext as parameter

Hi everyone,

I'm writing a in-game developer conole at the moment to give myself the possibility to debug games when they're built. If you press a button, the console opens up and closes. Inside the console you can enter commands (like "/quit" to quit the application, or "/gravity <value>" to change the strength of the gravitational pull to the given value). Just for fun, I also wanted to add a command called "/close" that - who would have guessed - closes the console. As mentioned before, I could do that with the keyboard, but I want to practice different approaches.


My current console controller is based on the new InputSystem and listens to a CallbackContext to open and close:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ConsoleBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.  
4.     // fields and assignments here ...
5.  
6.     public void Toggle(CallbackContext context)
7.     {
8.         if (!context.action.triggered)
9.             return;
10.  
11.         if (uiCanvas.activeSelf)
12.         {
13.             CloseConsole();
14.         }
15.         else
16.         {
17.             OpenConsole();
18.         }
19.     }
20.  
21. }

I also have an interface for commands. Input into the console is checked against that interface and when recognized as a proper command, the interface method "Process(string[] args)" is called on the command. This method is supposed to handle all the logic of that specific command.
My goal is to call the ConsoleBehaviour::Toggle method from that command and give a corresponding CallbackContext as parameter but I'm not sure how I can accomplish that or whether it's possible at all.

I tried things along the lines of

// get InputAction from InputActionAsset --> toggle

ConsoleBehaviour.instance.Toggle(toggle.triggered);

ConsoleBehaviour.instance.Toggle(toggle.started);

Until now, without success. Maybe someone can point me into the right direction.


Thank you in advance!

 

Add a layer of indirection. There's no need to try to hook into the input system for this.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ConsoleBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     // fields and assignments here ...
4.  
5.     public void OnToggle(CallbackContext context) {
6.  
7.         if (!context.action.triggered)
8.             return;
9.      
10.         ToggleConsole();
11.     }
12.  
13.     public void ToggleConsole()
14.     {
15.         if (uiCanvas.activeSelf)
16.         {
17.             CloseConsole();
18.         }
19.         else
20.         {
21.             OpenConsole();
22.         }
23.     }
24. }

Code (CSharp):

1. ConsoleBehaviour.instance.ToggleConsole();

 

Yeah, I guess I was so focused on doing something with the New InputSystem, I lost sight of the bigger picture. Thank you for your answer.