Separating UI input from gameplay input

[KGameil]

I'm new to Nova UI so this might sound like a newbie question. When I click on a text field and i start typing. some of the letters like WSAD fire input to move along the horizontal and vertical axes. and I'm sure whichever other input binding out there will be triggered even though I'm typing in a text field. Is there a way to separate UI input from gameplay input so that this doesn't occur?

[adgray1]

There's a Text Field Selector component within the text field prefabs included in the asset. The Text Field Selector fires two events, OnFocused and OnFocusedLost, when the text field receives and loses focus respectively.

So one suggestion to handle the scenario you're describing is to have a script listening for the TextFieldSelector.OnFocused event which will be responsible for disabling your gameplay input module/manager when the focus event is fired and then will re-enable the gameplay input module/manager when the TextFieldSelector.OnFocusLost event is invoked.

Hope that helps!

[KGameil]

Thanks for the response! Despite the fact that this suggestion is a manual process (Similar to Unreal's input mode switching to be honest) vs UGUI's automatic separation. It still is direct enough for me to understand and apply. I'll mark it as an answer.

[mjdoell]

I am new to Nova so my follow up question may sound like a newbie question as well. I would like touch input that results in Nova handling the input to not trigger gameplay input. For example, my gameplay input is to move an item to the screen location that is touched. However, I do not want that gameplay input to trigger, if it was a Nova UI item that was touched. Is there a way to handle inputs that are resolved by Nova UI so they do not trigger additional gameplay behavior?

[mjdoell]

I kept reading more discussions and found this which looks like what I need.
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