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Summary

Who knew there were so many different types of interactable UI objects! Having templates for these different UI objects is incredibly helpful. Technically, they can all be built "by hand" with Buttons, Images, and Text, but that is a lot of effort you don't have to do, because Unity has done it for you.

In this chapter, we discussed the following topics:

Applying masks to UI objects
Implementing the UI Toggle, UI Slider, UI Scrollbar, UI Scroll View, UI Dropdown, and UI Input Field templates
How to use the TextMeshPro-Dropdown and TextMeshPro-Input Field objects
Hooking up the default events attached to each interactive UI item
How to add a Scroll Rect component to a preexisting menu to make a scrollable menu

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