UI Button Show selected State

Hi,

I am working with Unity UI and wish to show the selected state of a button.

Like

Button.selected = true; // this will start showing the selected state.

thanks
gn

 

Are you sure you don't mean a toggle control?
Buttons only have a click state.

Or do you mean when the button control is in focus?

 

I have a list of Buttons in ScrolBar and when ever I click a button I display its contents in the content area.
Now I wish to display the selected state of button as its contents have been displayed.

I dont mean to say about a Toggle Button.... I am using Simple Button.

 

Button should have an option or property so that we can display its selected state.

 

Then you should have a State manager script and each button's onclick can additionally update the state manager with it's name.
Remember with the UnityEvent property draw, you can add multiple actions for a single event:

Action 1: Update Content Area
Action 2: Update state manage with selected state.

So rather than trying to morph the button, use a manager.

 

It does: mybutton.Select();
It will display what you set in its highlighted field in the inspector. This should work for all UI components that inherit from UI.Selectable. Check out the doc and look at the button info.

They have a pressed state, not really a click state. It has more states as well, and it varies depending on the transition you pick, it can also have no states for a simple button.

 

it works fine. I have sub menus after clicking a main menu button, and when the selected state of child menu button displays the parent menu button looses its selected state.
I am thinking to use a toggle button and set manually isOn property for each click of all its Buttons?

Is there any other approach to do this?

 

Toggle button would be the best approach. Remember that the new UI is new, and they don't have very many controls setup. You may have to create your own controls that you need.

 

I'd agree with @Chris Trueman on that one, the toggle would seem to suit your requirement better,
Be sure to use a Toggle Group as well, if you only want one toggle to be active at a time.

 

Using Toggle Group is the best way to handle my problem.

Thanks everyone.

 

I have to use normal buttons only but how? I didn't get anything..