# UnityGUI click event
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707
**Category:** Questions & Answers
**Created:** [May 24, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707 "2011-05-24T09:34:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@anon38624328](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon38624328)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/1 "2011-05-24T09:34:07Z")
I’ve created a UI using UnityGUI.
When I click on either GUI.Button or GUI.Box the click is processed by objects on the scene.
```
if (Input.GetKeyDown ("mouse 0")) {
Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit)) {
// ...
}
}
```
I need to determine the fact, that the UI was clicked on.
In case of GUI.Button I can check wether GUIUtility.hotControl != 0.
GUI.Box doesn’t modify GUIUtility.hotControl.
What is the common solution?
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### Author:  [@FadeToBlack](https://discussions.unity.com/u/FadeToBlack)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/4 "2012-06-03T10:23:52Z")
just now i found the next solution (i use it in dragging camera routine):
```
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(2) && GUIUtility.hotControl == 0) {
pos = cursor.getPos(false);
drag = true;
}
```
this condition ignores mouse down when we click on gui elements
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### Author:  [@Bunny83](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Bunny83)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/2 "2011-05-24T10:59:27Z")
Ahhh, finally i got your problem :D. To sum up:
- You have a GUI on your screen
- You use the above posted raycast to interact with GameObjects in your scene
- You don’t want to interact with objects that are behind the GUI when you click on the GUI.
I think that’s your problem, right? It’s really hard to get that out of your question.
You can simply check if the mouse is inside the Rect of your box/window. If you use [GUI.Box](http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/GUI.Box.html) just use the Rect you’re using to create the Box. If you use GUILayout you can use [GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect](http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect.html) to determine the Rect. To check if you are over the GUI use [Rect.Contains](http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Rect.Contains.html) with the mouse position (inside OnGUI use [Event.current.mousePosition](http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Event-mousePosition.html)).
```
//C#
bool overGUI = false;
void OnGUI()
{
Rect guiRect = new Rect(10,10,100,100);
GUI.Box(guiRect);
if(GUI.Button(new Rect(20,20,80,30),"Click Me"))
{
// clicked
}
if (Event.current != null && Event.current.isMouse)
{
overGUI = guiRect.Contains(Event.current.mousePosition);
}
}
```
or with GUILayout
```
bool overGUI = false;
void OnGUI()
{
GUILayout.BeginVertical("", "Box"); // style it like a Box
if(GUILayout.Button("Click Me"))
{
// clicked
}
GUILayout.EndVertical();
Rect guiRect = GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect();
if (Event.current != null && Event.current.isMouse)
{
overGUI = guiRect.Contains(Event.current.mousePosition);
}
}
```
Now you can check the boolean if your over the GUI or not 😉
ps. I wrote that from scratch so it’s not checked for syntax errors 😉
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### Author:  [@Owen-Reynolds](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Owen-Reynolds)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/3 "2012-02-10T21:59:16Z")
This is what worked for me. It ignores the first and all clicks in a GUI.textField, and sees even the very first click outside of one:
```
if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && GUI.GetNameOfFocusedControl()=="") {...}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Turns out the rule about not using GUI stuff except in OnGUI doesn’t apply to getNoFC. It _can_ be examined from Update. You have to be sure to set names – ex: `GUI.SetNextControlName("b");` – in front of all your focusable controls (you can be lazy and give them all the same name.)
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### Author:  [@arlinon](https://discussions.unity.com/u/arlinon)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/5 "2013-12-29T14:48:24Z")
I tried to use above methods and few other but couldn’t get what I really want.
I ended up making a rect for where I see the scene from and raycast through. Game just checks whether the scene rect contains mouse click as explained in here [Unity - Scripting API: Rect.Contains](http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rect.Contains.html)
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### Author:  [@vikingfabian-com](https://discussions.unity.com/u/vikingfabian-com)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/unitygui-click-event/21707/6 "2014-08-28T12:37:25Z")
This works for editor GUI
```
public static bool LeftMouseUp()
{
return Event.current != null && Event.current.type == EventType.MouseUp && Event.current.button == 0;
}
```