Figuring out which button the mouse is hovering over

How can I figure out which button the mouse is hovering over? I want to do something similar to a tooltip except I would display/hide a whole window with text, textures, and the whole shabang. However each button needs a different window with different info and textures and I cant figure out how to identify a GUI button (unity 2.0)
Thanks,
Luke

 

It would be good to have that but afaik it can't be done, you can change the texture and so on but not make a certain script trigger when the mouse rolls over.

Put it on the wish list

 

This is not entirely true. There was a hack floating about the forum, which uses the tooltip to detect which component the mouse is over.

I use it to play sounds on mouse over.

Regards,
Marc

 

Here is an example of one way to do it.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. void OnGUI() {
3.         GUIContent content = new GUIContent("The Button", "mouseover-button");
4.        
5.         if(GUI.Button(new Rect(0, 0, 100, 100), content) ) {
6.            
7.         }
8.        
9.        
10.         if(GUI.tooltip.Equals("mouseover-button")) {
11.             // Play sound
12.         }
13. }
14.  

The above code might execute your playsound to much, so maybe its a good idea to add a check that only plays it when the event type is repaint.

 

Hey i did not know it was able to do that, can you do it in java? if yes can you translate it to java i am not so good at c.

 

My two cents:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     if (Event.current.type == EventType.Repaint)
3.     {
4.         if (!GUI.tooltip.Equals(mLastTooltip))
5.         {
6.             if (!GUI.tooltip.Equals(""))
7.                 PlayRollOverSound();
8.             mLastTooltip = GUI.tooltip;
9.         }      
10.     }