Hi there,
I’ve been working with the new UIToolkit and Input System on my latest project. I’ve implemented a UI and the Input System seems to be working great.
However, on a new feature I’m trying to implement, I want some code to execute when I hover over a gameobject. I’ve kept it simple for now, just displaying a debug message. I’m using IPointerEnterHandler and IPointerExit Handler (and their neccessary functions).
I set up the 2D Raycaster on my Main Camera, a 2D collider on the item I’d like to hover over (and attached the hover functionality script to it). I wasn’t able to see the debug messages when hoving over the GameObject though.
After many hours of experimentation. I’m able to get the mouse hovering debug messages to show if I disable the “Panel Raycaster” that appears in a child element of my EventSystem in play mode. This will then cause my UI elements to not be detected by the mouse.
Is there a better solution to toggling the Panel Raycaster on and off? That would be fine if I was hitting a button to toggle a menu, but what about a persistant UI element, like an item hotbar? I’d need to enable the panel raycaster when I am hovering over it, but to detect that… I’d need to use the panel raycaster??
Any help here would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time!
