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Unity UI Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity UI Cookbook Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885822
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Sapio Francesco Sapio
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. UI Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. Implementing Counters and Health Bars 3. Implementing Timers 4. Creating Panels for Menus 5. Decorating the UI 6. Animating the UI 7. Applying Runtime Customizations 8. Implementing Advance HUDs 9. Diving into 3D UIs 10. Creating Minimaps Index

Making an input field for a password with a lower bound limit for characters


Sometimes, a password cannot be shorter than a lower bound character limit. This happens for a lot of reasons, including security. In Unity, we can easily set an upper bound limit for characters by specifying it in the Input Field (Script) component inside the Character Limit variable. In this recipe, what we are going to achieve is the checking of lower bound limits for characters in input fields. So, you will learn how to write a short script to handle this, and as a consequence, the input field will also be reset. This means an empty string is assigned to the text variable.

How to do it...

  1. To begin, we need to create our input field, right-click on the Hierarchy panel, then go to UI | Input Field, and rename it myInputField. Finally, place it wherever you want.

  2. As we discussed in the introduction to this recipe, we are going to create a password input field. We should also select Password in the drop-down menu of...

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