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Question by Fractalbase · Jun 03, 2018 at 04:23 PM · uimouseover

How to Make OnMouseEnter/OnMouseExit work correctly with Unity UI

I have a scene that only has Unity UI elements.

the UI elements are (essentially) a list of Images, each with a Text as a child.

The Text is a word.

I then created a separate Image (background) with Text, that I want to appear when the mouse is hovering over the particular word, then disappear when the mouse is not hovering over the particular word.

Each UI item has been manually created in the scene.

The issue is that options "OnMouseEnter" and "OnMouseExit" don't work.

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
     
 public class MouseEnablePopupWindow : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public GameObject popupWindowObject;
 
     private void Start()
     {
         popupWindowObject.SetActive(false);
     }
 
     private void Update()
     {
     }
 
     private void OnMouseEnter()
     {
         print("OnMouseEnter");
         popupWindowObject.SetActive(true);
     }
 
     private void OnMouseExit()
     {
         print("OnMouseExit");
         popupWindowObject.SetActive(false);
     }
 }


Any ideas? Thanks.

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avatar image Fractalbase · Jun 05, 2018 at 12:26 AM 0
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bump, any insight or help is greatly appreciated.

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Answer by Antoine_L · Nov 04, 2018 at 12:29 AM

   using UnityEngine;
   using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
  
   public class MouseEnablePopupWindow : MonoBehaviour, IPointerEnterHandler
   {
       public GameObject popupWindowObject;
 
       private void Start()
       {
           popupWindowObject.SetActive(false);
       }
 
       private void Update()
       {
       }
       public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
      {
          print("OnMouseEnter");
           popupWindowObject.SetActive(true);
      }
 }

Don't use OnMouseEnter for UI, instead, use OnPointerEnter.

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avatar image FBones · Dec 26, 2018 at 10:08 PM 0
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Worked for me! Thanks!

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Worker for me !!!!!!

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Answer by krotovar · Nov 17, 2020 at 06:55 PM

In 2020 it is not working anymore ((( In Unity library they writing OnMouseEnter should work, but it doesnt

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Weird, OnPointerEnter worked for me in 2020.3.

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