Question navigate selection menu with only buttons?

hello, im making a selection menu for a mobile game

the way i wanna do this is by having non clickable buttons in the form of files on the screen (see the gif attached to know what i mean) and using the buttons (blue) i wanna be able to cycle through them (like in the gif) and then select the one highlighted using the pink button.

Ive read about buttons in the unity docs but im still not sure how to achieve this .-.
any help would be greatly appreciated

 

There are probably a lot of ways, but you could have the "files" in an array and then when you click the blue buttons, it moves a highlight/selector effect to the next array index.

Aka, you have code for highlighting the current index in the array. When you press the "next" blue button, it adds one to the index and the highlight is always over the current index.

Hopefully that gives you an idea on how to get started.

 

Thank you! That is helpful
But may I ask how do I code a button to be highlighted?

 

Essentially, you have a highlight image/gameobject. Then you set its position to be over the proper object depending on the index in the array.

So you will need either a set of If statements or use a Switch statemen to check what file is currently selected. Then, depending on the file's index in the array, you set the position where you need it. Check out highlighting or something similar on YT and you should find plenty of tutorials