OnMouseOver being called even when component is disabled

Scripting
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I have a script on an object that is enabled only when interacting with a specific object (in this case, the lock component for a door, which is only enabled once the key is picked up), but the script’s OnMouseOver function is throwing errors when the player looks at it, despite the component being disabled.

I have tried numerous things to prevent this but have gotten nowhere.

I am using the standard setup, using void OnMouseOver(), nothing else is calling it and I have no fancy code behind anything else that is using it, is there an alternative to OnMouseOver that doesn’t fire when the component is disabled?

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OnMouseOver is part of MonoBehaviour. This means that OnMouseOver is being called regardless of whether the parent object is enabled or not. Short of implementing a raycast test in Update() the only thing I could offer would be to test the enabled status before doing anything when OnMouseOver is called.