OnGUI Button To Auto Position according to screen Resolution

Hi everyone,i have a Repeat Type OnGUI Button in a script and on unity's player it shows my button exactly where i wanted it to but on devices with other resolution it doesn't show the button where i placed it i wanna make my OnGUI Button to reposition itself on other devices with different resolution to that place where it was placed before.Here's the snippet of that button code:

Code (CSharp):

1.        if (GUI.RepeatButton (new Rect (leftcontrolright, leftcontrolup, leftcontrolxsize, leftcontrolysize), "move left")){
2.             Vector3 v3Force = thrust * -transform.right;
3.             rb.AddForce(v3Force);
4.         }

any idea how to do that?

 

Just out of curiousity, can you describe where the button is on the screen?

 

Hi Methos5k,Its on bottom left corner.....

 

So, then how you determine the bottom left position should be based on the screen height, I think, yes?

 

Note: with UGUI components, you can set anchors to corners

 

Like @methos5k points out, I would highly recommend using the "new" Unity GUI system (which is now four years old) instead of OnGUI().

If you insist on using OnGUI(), I would make a handy rectangle-creation function like so:

Code (csharp):

1.     Rect MR( float x, float y, float w, float h)
2.     {
3.         return new Rect (Screen.width * x, Screen.height * y, Screen.width * w, Screen.height * h);
4.     }
5.  

Then when you use it in OnGUI, to put a button in the lower right, you would do:

Code (csharp):

1. void OnGUI()
2. {
3.     if (GUI.Button( MR( 0.80f, 0.90f, 0.20f, 0.10f), "Button"))
4.     {
5.         // do your stuff
6.     }
7. }
8.  

In both X and Y directions the screen becomes addressible as 0.0f to 1.0f. That's how I do it when I use the old OnGUI() system. Upper left would be (0,0) and lower right would be (1,1) regardless of screen resolution.

Aspect ratio may still be a concern however, but this is left as a mathematical exercise to the UI designer. Meanwhile, you owe yourself to at least look at the new UI...