Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  August 2018

  Welcome to the communuty, @Bosca.
  
  You can have Inventory items be treated like Hotspots (i.e. open up the Interaction menu when clicked) by setting the Inventory interactions field to Multiple.  This can be found under "Inventory settings" in the Settings Manager.  For more on this topic, see the Manual's "Inventory interactions" chapter.
  
  To have Interactions run when the mouse is released over an icon, as opposed to clicking an icon, check Trigger interaction by releasing click? in under "Interface settings".
  
  This option isn't time-based, but you could feasibly incorporate a custom script to change this setting dynamically after a set time of the menu being turned on.  The OnMenuTurnOn custom event can be used to run custom code when the menu is enabled (see the Manual's "Menu scripting" chapter), and a script reference to any Manager field can be obtained by right-clicking that field's label in the AC Game Editor.
  
• Bosca

  August 2018

  Hi Chris, thanks for your answer, this helped a lot, and I'm getting almost where I want to be
  I now have a working verb coin which executes a verb (e.g. "look") on mouse release on the Look icon. The only problem now is: I'd like to be able to open the verb coin itself by pressing the left mouse button on an hotspot and holding it down for a short period of time, so that I can release it while being on a verb icon (having the verb coin close itself if the mouse is released elsewhere shouldn't be much of a problem, I think).
  
  Thanks again, customer support here is heavenly!
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2018

  To be clear: the issue is that you want to click-and-hold a while before showing the verb coin?  As opposed to showing up instantly?

  
  

  As that's not a standard option, you'll need to rely on a custom script to control the state of your interaction menu.

  
  

  In the Settings Manager, set your See Interations with field to Via Script Only.  As the message box the appears then explains, you can call a public method to enable your Interaction menu when appropriate.

  
  

  Try this:

  http://pasteall.org/1082549/csharp
  

  
  
• Bosca

  August 2018

  Yes, that's it!
  This whole fuss was about being able to separate and implement both the single click-and-hold and the standard single click, in order to use both behaviours in the inventory (respectively to open the verb coin to do an action for an object in the inventory, and to pick up an object from the inventory and use it on the scenery).
  
  I really appreciated your help, thanks a lot
• mad_lemon

  January 2019

  Hi, coming back to this post since I am trying to do exactly what @Bosca explained (Hold mouse and release for interaction).
  The pasteall.org link is not working for me, just wondering if Bosca or Chris have the code at hand.

  Thank you!
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2019

  @mad_lemon Pasteall seems to be down completely, so I'm hoping it'll be back soon. In the meantime, I suspect this is what I was referring to:

  using UnityEngine;
  using System.Collections;
  using AC;
  
  public class HoldToShowInteraction : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public float maxHoldTime = 0.5f;
      private float heldTime;
  
  
      private void Update ()
      {
          if (Input.GetMouseButton (0) &&
              (KickStarter.playerInteraction.GetActiveHotspot () != null || KickStarter.runtimeInventory.hoverItem != null) &&
              KickStarter.stateHandler.IsInGameplay () &&
              !KickStarter.playerMenus.IsInteractionMenuOn ())
          {
              // LMB is held down over a Hotspot or inventory item, during gameplay, and when no Interaction menu is showing
  
              heldTime += Time.deltaTime;
              if (heldTime >= maxHoldTime)
              {
                  // Open the Interaction menu
                  if (KickStarter.runtimeInventory.hoverItem != null)
                  {
                      // For an inventory item
                      KickStarter.playerMenus.EnableInteractionMenus (KickStarter.runtimeInventory.hoverItem);
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      // For a Hotspot
                      KickStarter.playerMenus.EnableInteractionMenus (KickStarter.playerInteraction.GetActiveHotspot ());
                  }
                  heldTime = 0f;
              }
          }
          else
          {
              heldTime = 0f;
          }
      }
  
  }
  
• mad_lemon

  January 2019

  Thanks!
  I've selected See interactions with: Via Script Only, and created the script file on my assets, but I am not sure on how to implement it. I tried in my Interactions Prefab root object, but it doesn't seem to work.
  Almost there!
• mad_lemon

  January 2019

  Ok! I figured it out (Right on the game engine if anyone is wondering).
  Now I just have to find out why "Trigger reaction by releasing click" is not working with this, and I'm done!
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2019

  For that field to have an effect, you must either have your Input method field set to Touch Screen, or your Select interactions by field set to Clicking Menu.

  Note that this does not affect Menus rendered with Unity UI.