Question How to Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) with new InputSystem

Heyall!

What I am trying to do:

• A non-gaming app that allows interaction through remote control as well as touchscreen;
• The UI adapts for remote control (focus rectangle), for touchscreen (all interactable hot areas become evident), or no interaction (visual elements on screen are minimized);
• As the user performs an action on the remote control, the UI responds and switches to REMOTE mode;
• As the user approaches the screen, a proximity sensor triggers TOUCH mode;
• As the user touches the screen, as a fallback in case the sensor didn't work, UI switches to TOUCH mode;
• After a timeout from last interaction, the UI switches to NONE mode;

Basically what I need to do is listen to mouse / touch input, regardless of where it takes place (I don't care what is being touched, I just need that to generically trigger the switch to TOUCH mode and restart the timeout counter to switch back to NONE mode.

With the old system I could achieve this like so:

Code (CSharp):

1. private void Update()
2. {
3.     If(Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0) || Input.touchCount > 0)
4.     {
5.         SetInteractionModeTouch();
6.         StartTimeoutToModeNone();
7.     }
8. }

Of course this is triggering an exception with the new InputSystem.
I am trying to sift through the documentation, but every time I do, I get more confused.
Do you have a clean way to do this, ideally by listening to an event directly (avoiding using the Update function)?

 

Yep, you can listen to the

canceled

event of an InputAction. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_canceled

 

Hi PraetorBlue,

could you give me a hint about how to go about this (just in code, without having to set up things in the editor / project)?

Other question, will canceled do the following:
- be invoked for any and all touch / mouse input, regardless of whether it is hitting an object that "captures it" or not?
- not be invoked for any keyboard input (my remote control is a CAN-bus device interfaced via a USB HID device that emulates a Keyboard

Thank you!!!