detect a touch on a GameObject

I'm developing a 2D game on Unity 4.3, using 2D features.

I'm trying to write a script to check multiple touches and detect which sprite/gameobject the player has tapped.

I could detect a touch but I'm not able to find the solution to access the object if it's tapped.

The only solution I found closely related to the issue I'm having is here:

but it's not the one I'm looking for, I need to access the gameobject that the player tapped so that I can change it's color and scale value.

Can anyone suggest a better way to do it?

 

i used the bounds of the object to detect if the current touch/click position is inside.

if(renderer.bounds.contains(somePosition))
{
//do cool stuff
}

 

There is also a generic Unity event OnMouseEnter/Down/Over. To use that you need a collider on your object and then you have to define a function inside a script assigned to the object.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. //This function is called when mouse is directly over a collider
3. void OnMouseOver()
4. {
5.        DoSomething();
6. }
7.  

Edit: I noticed an issue. When you have a 3d collider and 2d collider the function is called by 3d collider even if it's behind the 2d one.