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[Question] Event Trigger Pointer Enter

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by InvincibleDragon, Dec 18, 2015.

  1. InvincibleDragon

    InvincibleDragon

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    Hello, I'm developing a game in Unity and a couple of days ago I updated my Unity version from 5.0 to 5.3.0f4. I got two buttons on my 2D game to make the character go forward and go back, respectively. In Unity 5.0, when I built my game for android, the behavior was as expected:

    • Pressing forward the character went forward. If I lifted my finger or didn't touch the button anymore, the character stopped immediately.

    • Pressing the back button the character went back. Same behavior as above.
    This was done with Pointer Enter on Event Trigger with the new UI, but when I updated my Unity version I noticed a slight change on this behavior. Frequently the character in my game keep moving forward/back even if I lifted my finger from the movement button, or didn't touch them anymore. Sometimes he stops, but I can't realise why this is happening.

    There was some change to Pointer Enter? I tested some combinations, even with the PointerClick but the previous behaviour is not happening anymore.

    Some additional clarifications: using Pointer Enter/Exit in Unity 5.0 gave the feeling of moving the character as in a d-pad, i.e., I could slide my fingers between forward/back to my character go in these directions as I wanted. This is not accomplished by using Pointer Up/Down neither on Unity 5.0 nor 5.3.0f4. So, because of this, I can't understand the new behaviour of Pointer Enter.

    Some thoughts on this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
     
    InvincibleDragon, Dec 18, 2015
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  2. dreyescairo

    dreyescairo

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    I'm suddenly having the exact same problem. If anyone has discovered the reason behind the behavior change, please chime in!
     
    dreyescairo, Jan 16, 2016
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  3. eses

    eses

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    InvincibleDragon: I can only say (based on working with this particular issue for a couple of days now) this seems to be working OK in Unity 5.2.3p3.

    However, I haven't done any real world gaming style testing, only checking that my buttons work how I made them, in editor and device, not particularly many clicks/taps while testing.

    I've mostly used interfaces in simple script, I haven't used EventTrigger component - maybe you can try that and see if it makes any difference.
     
    eses, Jan 16, 2016
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