How to Detect a Right Mouse Click on a UI Button in Unity

Question

I've been recently working on a videogame, and I'm trying to make a script that will destroy the game object it is applied to whenever the right mouse button is clicked on it. It doesn't function at all and I don't receive any error messages in the Console. Here is all my code:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class RightClick: MonoBehaviour, IPointerClickHandler
{
    // Initiates whenever the pointer is clicked
    public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        // Destroys item from players inventory when pressed
        if (eventData.pointerId == -2)
        {
            // Removes object from inventory
            Object.Destroy(this.gameObject);
        }
    }
}

I have searched for hours on this topic and have only found extremely outdated sources, please help me!

Answer 1

Add this script to your button.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class UIClickHandler : MonoBehaviour, IPointerClickHandler
{
public UnityEvent onLeftClick;
public UnityEvent onRightClick;
public UnityEvent onMiddleClick;

public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData)
{
if (eventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Left)
{
onLeftClick.Invoke();
}
else if (eventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Right)
{
onRightClick.Invoke();
}
else if (eventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Middle)
{
onMiddleClick.Invoke();
}
}
}

I steal it from here.