How do I create a Button when I click another Button?

Question

I need help. When I click a Button, I want to create a new Button. My code, however, creates four Buttons. What should I do?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class AddButton : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject prefabButton;
    public RectTransform ParentPanel;
    public Button saveButton;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
           // for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
            {
                GameObject button = (GameObject)Instantiate(prefabButton) as GameObject;
                button.transform.SetParent(ParentPanel, false);
                button.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
             }
        }  
    }
}

Philipp · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22 18:50:22Z

Input.GetMouseButton(0) will return true during every frame where you keep holding the button. Unity frames are quite fast, so it requires quite a lot of agility to hold a button for just one frame.

Try Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) instead. It only returns true during the first update of a click.

By the way: Your code will spawn a new button no matter where you click, because it just detects mouse clicks, not where these clicks happen. If you want an event to happen when a button is clicked, you shouldn't use the Input class. Add a method as an event handler for that button, instead. You can do that in the editor or with a script.

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