Is there a way to receive Mouse Events with pickingMode = ignore?

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So I have a hierarchy like this:

Root

  • Element 1
  • Element 2
  • Element 3

On Element3, I’m registering a mouse down event using: RegisterCallback<MouseDown>();
On Element1, I’m also registering a mouse down event.

Only Element3 receives the mouse event.
All elements fit the size of the Root element.

If I set the pickingMode of Element 3 to ignore, Element 1 recieves mouse events, but then element 3 doesn’t.

I want all elements to receive mouse events, regardless of what is sitting on top of them.
Is that not possible?

Or is there someway to listen to mouse events on root and send them down?

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You could have child elements register MouseDown callbacks to their parent on their own AttachToPanelEvent and unregister on their own DetachFromPanelEvent.

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Yeah I ended up doing that. Would be nice if PickingMode had a new value “Passthrough” that didn’t block, but also allowed handling the event

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