How to detect click on text 💛 Unity 6 TextMesh Pro and the link tag
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Dec 5, 2022 11:00
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This is how you can click on Text in Unity and show a tooltip among other things!
In this video, we'll explore the most mysterious tag in TextMeshPro and how to use it to register clicks on your text: the link tag. This tag can enable you to do a lot more than just display a linked URL - think of it as a way to connect your game's systems, rather than just linking to websites. By having your text clickable, you can display tooltips, jump to new entries in the dialogue and much more!
We'll start with a small example project that shows how to use the link tag to create a tooltip that appears when you click on a word or sprite in a text box. In future videos, we'll delve deeper into the link tag and explore some of the other cool things you can do with it like creating a hyperlinked Dialogue or hovering above tagged parts to display extra infos.
In this tutorial, we'll read the tagged word as a keyword. In the next tutorial, we'll use the keyword to look up more infos and see a system where we have no other way than using the keyword instead of the tagged text :)
Stay tuned for more tutorials on the link tag and how to use it in your Unity projects!
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