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Purpose of PointerEventData in BaseRaycaster.Raycast()

Discussion in 'Documentation' started by timoffex, Mar 7, 2019.

  1. timoffex

    timoffex

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    I am unable to find any documentation (or discussion) explaining why BaseRaycaster.Raycast() takes a PointerEventData instead of, say, just a Vector2. What concerns me is that PointerEventData is a mutable class, meaning that a BaseRaycaster could hypothetically call Use() or could even change the position property.

    Are implementations of BaseRaycaster supposed to use any of the other information in PointerEventData besides position?
     
    timoffex, Mar 7, 2019
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