Creating a toggle button in unity3d Scene vs Scripting

Question

I am making my first GUI in unity, and I am not sure if should create the toggle buttons in the game scene by creating new UI elements or by scripting.

Creating them in the game scene gives me more options but I have trouble to manipulate the input.

Because of this I am scripting them in the monodeveloper but it seems more difficult to work the visual side (I am using a texture but can't get rid of the little box (that shows f the button is clicked or not).

How do you make your toggle buttons and how do you develop your GUI?

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

I am using the canvas UI in Unity 5. And to add a button to screen, I just create a UI Image under my canvas object in Hierarchy view. Change the sprite as required.

Now add "Event Trigger" as shown below.

Next "Add new event type". I use "PointerUp".

You get an empty list.

Click + to add a function which will be called on the event ("PointerUp" in our case)

In the third field insert the object which should have the script (you want to invoke) attached to it. In my example the object is called "LevelUIControls" and it has a script called "LevelControls" attached to it.

This should make it easy for you to manipulate input.

Answer 2

I prefer the scripting way to make the GUI, though it's probably because the only thing I like about making games is scripting.

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Slipting way :

One way to do it is to use the GUI.Toggle function in Unity.

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Non Scripting Way :

If you still want to use the new GUI, here's a good tutorial : Click me :)

Answer 3

I prefer UI Elements...

I mostly use UI Elements for static buttons and labels..

When I need dynamic stuff going on (an inventory for example) I just script-instantiate them (using object pools)