GUI.TextField doesn't allow Mouse Events to be Processed on overlapping GUI

Hello everyone,

I am working on a Tool in the UnityEditor and I am running into an issue where if a UI element that requires Events from Mouse Input to be processed is overlapping a GUI.TextField then I cannot process any Mouse events.

I have already tried to do

Code (CSharp):

1. Event.current.Use()

to use the event and have also tried to use

Code (CSharp):

1. GUI.FocusControl("")

and

Code (CSharp):

1. GUI.FocusControl(null)

but I can't seem to get it to work, instead when I select the UI element it will just select the TextField below it.



In the above image I have two overlapping UI elements for the Tool. The red dot is where I selected to select this UI Element. The green dot is the GUI.TextField below that is selected. When I selected that point it immediately began focusing on the TextField. And did not process any other events.

I still need to be ABLE to edit the TextField at points so I will not be able to outright remove that ability.

Thoughts and ideas are appreciated

 

Hello
I discover your post a little in late when I got the same issue.
I wanted something like that: a textfield (with layout) and a button to clear the field upon the textfield.



The X button was never triggered because the texfield consume the events.
On top of that, that was not possible to draw the X before the textfield because the textfield overlap the X button.
The solution is to process the event before the textfield using it:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.                 Event currentEvent = Event.current;
3.                 // Check clearing the textfield before processing the textfield
4.                 // Is a mouse down and the mouse position inside the X label ?
5.                 if (currentEvent.type == EventType.MouseDown && rectClear.Contains(currentEvent.mousePosition))
6.                     midiFilter = "";
7.  
8.                 midiFilter = GUILayout.TextField(midiFilter, MPTKGui.TextField);
9.                 if (currentEvent.type != EventType.Layout && currentEvent.type != EventType.Used)
10.                 {
11.                     // Get the rect position of the textfield
12.                     Rect last = GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect();
13.                     // Build the position of the label with X, rectClear must be an instance properties
14.                     rectClear.x = last.x + last.width - 20;
15.                     rectClear.y = last.y + 1;
16.                     rectClear.width = rectClear.height = 20;
17.                 }
18.                 // Build a label which overlap the textfield
19.                 GUI.Label(rectClear, new GUIContent(MPTKGui.IconDelete, "Clear Filter"), MPTKGui.Label);

The full code will be available mid-April (2023) look at the Maestro Midi File Player Tool Kit.
I hope that could help.
Thierry