Go Back to previous focus after dialog

[Dralks]

I'm sure that this has been answered before, but after reading the documentation and searched the forum I still couldn't find it, apologies.

I have a dialog opening in the menu and the continue button receives the focus (which is correct) but I want to go back to what the user had selected when the dialog closes, is there any easy option or do I need to write my own?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

You'll want to write your own. Record the current selected object before starting the conversation. Select that object when the conversation ends. Example:

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GameObject previousSelection = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject;
DialogueManager.instance.conversationEnded += OnConversationEnded;

void OnConversationEnded(Transform actor)
{
    DialogueManager.instance.conversationEnded -= OnConversationEnded;
    EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(previousSelection);
}

If you're using a Dialogue System Trigger, make a subclass that overrides DoConversationAction:

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public class MyDialogueSystemTrigger : DialogueSystemTrigger
{
    private GameObject previousSelection;
    
    protected override void DoConversationAction(Transform actor)
    {
        GameObject previousSelection = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject;
        DialogueManager.instance.conversationEnded += OnConversationEnded; //(same method as above)
        base.DoConversationAction(actor);
    }
}

[Dralks]

I will do, thank you very much for the code

[Tony Li]

Happy to help!