Getting mouse clicks on 'grouped' objects

Questions & Answers
1

I have a prefab which contains several objects (say, a plane and 3dtext). I want to detect mouse clicks on this prefab. I made a script with OnMouseDown() function, put it on the Prefab (top leve), I get no clicks. So my questions are:

  1. If there are multiple things in a group, do you have to put the OnMouseDown() on each item in the group? If so, what's the cleanest way to signal that this group was clicked?

  2. Is there a way to have one function intercept mouse clicks on ANY member of a group (what I was hoping).

  3. Am I going about this all wrong, should I be using something else?

My code:

function OnMouseDown()
{
    setDataSpotLabelText("clicked");
}

public function setDataSpotLabelText(s)
{
    t = gameObject.GetComponentInChildren(TextMesh);
    t.text = s;
}
2

OnMouseDown is per gameobject only

you could do it with raycasting, but i think the easiest way to start is to just have mousedown scripts which send the event to a main script

E.g.

function OnMouseDown()
{
    transform.root.SendMessage("MyOnMouseDown");
}

and in your root script:

function MyOnMouseDown()
{
    //code
}