Increase size of widget collider

Unity Engine
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I have a small button whose function is to allow the user to slide in a panel. This button responds to many events, since it’s right on the edge of the screen and I want to capture swipes that may begin outside the screen.

The button needs to be small, so that it doesn’t obscure much of what’s behind it, but it needs a larger area for its collider, since currently it’s not capturing fast swipes across it (most likely because of its small size, since it gets events if I make it larger).

In NGUI the collider was independent of the actual thing being rendered, but in UnityGUI I’m seeing no such functionality. Is it possible to have a widget that has a larger collider that what’s inferred by its bitmap?

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I’m also interested in this. Is this possible in any way? Will it be possible in future versions of Unity?

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I had to do this via a hack by just using a other widget with alpha zero that is larger.

I wish it worked ngui style where you can just attach a collider yourself, this would also solve the problem of not having circular buttons ATM too.