OnPointerExit not triggered when UI element appears and interrupts a hover (using new Input system)

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  • Hi! I am tring to make a tooltip using the New UI Input module.

  • When my mouse is over a building on my citybuilder game, a tooltip will apear, triggered by OnPointerEnter

  • When my mouse moves away from the building, the tooltip dissapears, triggered by OnPointerExit

  • PROBLEM: If my mouse is over the building, with the tooltip visible, and a popup (a Canvas) appears over it, it won’t trigger OnPointerExit, thus the building tooltip will still be visible, ON TOP of the popup.

  • If I move the mouse slightly while the popup is below it, OnPointerExit on the building will trigger and hide my tooltip, but at this point it is too late.

How can I fix this behavior? Ideally I would like to detect when a new UI element blocks an old one and triggers the old one’s loss of focus but I will take any suggestion. Thanks!

Update: Removing the new UI system and using the old one works, but I still would like a solution for the new one.
Update #2: Managed to reproduce it: Upload Files | Free File Upload and Transfer Up To 20 GB

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Sounds like a bug. I would do a bug report using the official tool. They will look into it.

You could always script a solution using events. Always have the tooltip disappear when popup occurs.

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I have, but there’s always an outside chance I wouldn’t hear about it again, or somebody encountered it and did a simple fix. I will never rule out that I am an idiot and I am doing something incredibly obvious but very simple to fix :slight_smile: