How to detect a full click (both down and up) on a gameobject

Unity Engine
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I’ve been messing around with combinations of OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp and I can’t see to figure out a way to make sure a click both starts and ends within the bounds of the objects collider.

Does anyone have a quick solution for this?

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In the UI you could implement IPointerClickHandler. Not sure how things differ outside the UI.

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It seems to work outside of the ui, though I’m having some issues implementing it. I think this is the solution though.

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How about OnMouseUpAsButton?

It also looks like there are OnMouseEnter and OnMouseExit functions, so you could presumably combine those with Down and Up to build your own click event.

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Im building with intent on swapping to mobile at some point so I’m trying to stay away from any hover functions :smile:

I think I’m going to go with your original proposal and use the event system, I just need to figure out how to convert all my other mouse functions to it as well so there isn’t conflicts.

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My previous tests with PointerEnter/Exit events (in the UI layer) indicate that they are triggered by touchscreen taps. (Lifting your finger counts as an Exit.) Wouldn’t surprise me if the MouseEnter/Exit functions did the same.