Question How to get if UI button is currently highlighted?

Hi,

Trying to figure out a simple way to know if a UI button is currently highlighted or not, this is for using a gamepad or keyboard, so I can't use OnPointerEnter or OnMouseOver methods or anything that exclusively uses a mouse.

I'm not proficient in C#.

I've been googling around but nothing seems to work so far -
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1629490/checking-if-button-is-highlighted-with-a-controlle.html
This one only works once the button is selected, not highlighted.

https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.IsHighlighted.html
This seems to be the closest thing to what I want, but I can't seem to make this work, I get the error "No overload method for "IsHighlighted" takes 1 arguments" and I have no idea how to fix it.

Thank you!

 

What's your code look like?

 

did you guys figure it out? I also want to check if it's highlighted. I'm using unity 2021.2, but my error says The name 'isHighlighted' does not exist in the current context.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.Events;
3. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6. public class IsSelected : Selectable
7. {
8.     BaseEventData BaseEvent;
9.     public GameObject dot;
10.  
11.     void Update()
12.     {
13.         if (isHighlighted(BaseEvent) == true)
14.         {
15.             dot.SetActive(true);
16.         }
17.         else
18.         {
19.             dot.SetActive(false);
20.         }
21.     }
22. }
23.  

is my code.

 

C# is a case sensitive language. It is

IsHighlighted

.

 

now I have the error No overload for method 'IsHighlighted' takes 1 arguments

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c....html#UnityEngine_UI_Selectable_IsHighlighted

IsHighlighted

has no parameters. Are you familiar with documentation and C# language by any means?

 

I have a small amount of experience with C#

 

nevermind I used chatgpt cause I wanted to make this work quickly and got it working.
If anyone has this problem imma leave my script.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class IsSelected : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler, IDeselectHandler
6. {
7.     private bool isHighlighted = false;
8.     public GameObject dot;
9.  
10.     public void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
11.     {
12.         isHighlighted = true;
13.         dot.SetActive(true);
14.         Debug.Log("Button Highlighted");
15.     }
16.  
17.     public void OnDeselect(BaseEventData eventData)
18.     {
19.         isHighlighted = false;
20.         dot.SetActive(false);
21.         Debug.Log("Button Unhighlighted");
22.     }
23.  
24.     // You can use isHighlighted in other parts of your script as needed.
25. }

 

Umm just to clear this up, you would use IsHighlighted like a bool, all you had to do was put the selectabke Before it and take the BaseEvent out of the parenthesis for it to return correctly. I dont recommend anyone use chatgpt ever. It's only worthwhile to write boilerplate if u akready know what ur doing, otherwise you wont learn anything.