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Hi All,

I have a problem with the setMousePassThroughEnabled() function when I'm trying to disable all mouse events on a StaticText widget.

It works fine for passing through the mouseover (mouseEnter/mouseLeave) events but when I try to click on the underlying PushButton widget, the event isn't propagated through.

What I have at the moment is a PushButton widget with a Static Text widget overlayed on top and to the right of the button. I setMousePassThroughEnabled(true), on the StaticText widget and that allows the mouseHover event to work fine, however when I try to click in the area covered by the StaticText widget but also over the button, nothing happens, my EventClicked callback isn't triggered

I've tried also setting a callback on the StaticText widget for a mouseButtonUp event with no success, is this a bug?

Any solutions greatfully received.

Thanks.

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your problems - nothing springs to mind, and I've not had time to investigate. Unless someone else can offer a solution, I'll try and see what I can come up with tomorrow.

So, I'm mainly replying now to let you know that somebody has actually read your message

I'm not sufficiently familiar with events to trace the functions called but I have found the following. CEGUIWindow.h/cpp contain the fonction getTargetChildAtPosition() which makes use of isMousePassThroughEnabled(). However this code only works for a hierarchy of children. If your StaticText a child of Pushbutton or is it simply "on top" of it? It's an idea, although I find it strange that it would work while hovering but not when clicking.

A workaround would be for the StaticText to subscribe to a mouse click event which would simply feed it back to the pushbutton's click event.

Hi,

Thanks for the replies, the StaticText widget is a child of the Pushbutton widget so is this a potential problem or should that work ok?

I'll try picking up the mouseclicked event and pass it to my main handling function.

Thanks.

From the code I saw this is the way it should be, the StaticText as a child of the Pushbutton.

Hi,

Turns out this was actually a bug, see http://www.cegui.org.uk/mantis/view.php?id=154 for someone else reporting the same issue.

As mentioned on Mantis, this is fixed in svn trunk r1531.

CE.

Ah ha,

was just about to post that I tried subscribing to another window event but that didn't work either, I shall download me that SVN trunk now...

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

Ian.

[edit] Woohoo!! succes, thanks guys