Add an Icon next to a text inside a button Unity 5.6

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Hello,

I would like to add an icon next to a text inside a button in Unity 5.6 dynamically by the c# script like this: alt text

within my script i have added a text inside a button but for adding an icon i don't know, how can i do it?My script:

 GameObject button = Instantiate(BtnTemplate)as GameObject;   
 button.GetComponent<ButtonListButton().SetText("Text");

In ButtonListButton script:

  public void SetText(string
 strText){
         tmpStr = strText;
         BtnTxt.text = strText;

I instantiate the button dynamically and i want to add icon and text inside a button dynamically too.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Answer by UnityCoach · Jul 28, 2017 at 05:54 PM

Interesting topic.

You can do this :

 public class ButtonListButton : MonoBehaviour // or UIBehaviour
 {
     [SerializeField] Image buttonImage;
     
     public void SetText (string strText, Sprite sprite)
     {
         buttonImage.sprite = sprite;
         tmpStr = strText;
         BtnTxt.text = strText;
     }
 }

The ButtonListButton component would need to reference the Image component you want to change. You could also create a "table" or images using a Dictionary, so that instead of passing a Sprite, you would only pass an index or key.

 Dictionary <string, Sprite> buttonsSprites = new Dictionary <string, Sprite>();
 
 public void SetSprite (string spriteName)
 {
     buttonImage.sprite = buttonsSprites[spriteName]
 }

Dictionaries are not serialisable though, so you'll have to build it. You could do that simply using sprites names.

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