Drag Item

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Introduction

Part of the Drag and Drop System of the UX Complete asset

To be attached to an object that can be dragged, meant for use with the Drag and Drop system. The intent of this componenet is that you add it to the Unity Engine UI object you want to be draggable, it could represent a spell, inventory item, etc.

You can use the static members listed below to understand the state of the drag and drop system as a whole.

Drag Object

The object currently being dragged if any

public static DragItem dragObject;

Concepts

Types

You will notice the Drag Item has a Types field which takes any kind of scriptable object you would like to place in it. This operates much like a "tag" system and in fact we provide a scriptable object ScriptableTag that contains no data and is meant for exsactly this sort of use. You can read more about ScriptableTag here.

Example

Lets assume we are using Drag and Drop for an ability bar system. Lets then assume we have weapon and spell abilities which can be "normal" or "ultimate" and that 1 of our slots the "ultimate" slot can take any normal ability or ultimate ability but that normal slots cannot take ultimate abilities.

We would then create scriptable objects as such

• Ability

• Weapon

• Spell

• Ultimate

We would add all of the scriptable objects to our Drop Item that matched, so all of them would get "Ability", all of the weapon abilities but not the spells would get "Weapon", all the spells but not weapon abilities would get "Spell" and so on.

We can now configure the Drop Containers accordingly. That is we can indicate that they take Abilities and which one allows for Ultimate or excludes Ultimate. You can read more about Drop Container and its filter in its article.

You can see a working example of this sort of conditional limits in the examples. In our examples we have slots and items that have 2 attributes color and number. some slots have just 1 attribute some have both some have none e.g. can take any item. This system lets you insure your users cant drag abilities to inventory slots, cant put a helmet on there feet, etc.

Definition

Fields and Attributes

Type	Name	Notes
Transform	homeContainer	The home container for this object
GameObject	proxyPrefab	The proxy to be used if any. This is used if the Move Effect type is Move Proxy
DragEffect	dragEffect	What effect should be applied on drag
ClearDropBehaviour	clearDropEffect	What should happen on a clear drop
List<ScriptableObject>	types	Used as a multi-tag system for defining drop rules on containers

Events

Drag Started

Occurs when the drag operation starts

Drop Accepted

Occurs when the drop operation is accepted

Drop Cancled

Occurs when the drop operation is cancled