[SOLVED] Wan't to be able to both click my button and buttons that's behind it (Inventory)

I have just started working on a rpg and have created a inventory. Important information: I have multiple slots that are buttons and I also have a item which is a button aswell. The item followed the mouse when selected.

My problem is when holding the item I can't click on the slots because it clickes on the item. Both the item and the slots need to be buttons for it to work and because I have multiple slots and will have multiple items I can't do something specific for every gameobject. So as the title says I want to both click the item and the slot at the same time.

Thanks for your help! Just ask me if you need more information.

Also sorry if this is the wrong place as it is my first post

 

This is the right place, and welcome to the forums!

If I understand you correctly, what you need to do is set raycastTarget = false on the Image component of the thing you're holding, while you're holding it. That will make clicks go right through it to whatever's behind. Then you can set it back to true once you've placed it down.

 

Thanks, I have a place in the code where I could add this. The problem is that I haven't found a way to find the button component. Because that's where the variable is right? In code it gives a error when using GetComponent<Button>(): I am using csharp

 

No, I think you want the Image component, not the Button component.

Also, as a general rule: if you're going to post about an error, actually copy and paste the error into your post. "An error" tells us nothing.

 

Ok, GetComponent<Image> gave this error: CS0103: The name 'Image' does not exist in the current context.

EDIT: I got it working by adding a canvasgroup which was acceseble, still can't find a way to access the image component which would be the prefered way. It does say that it is a script http://imgur.com/a/KTjVh

 

You're most likely missing the appropriate include. Place this at the top of the script with the others.

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine.UI;

 

Thanks both of you, it now works. A last question tho why haden't it inported UnityEngine.UI when it had inported UnityEngine, shouldn't that inport all UnityEngine classes?

 

Using has nothing to do with importing (in fact if the classes hadn't been imported the using directive would have generated an error message). It has to do with namespaces which are used to organize classes. By placing the using directive in your script you are informing the compiler that you wish to make use of classes found in that namespace.

Without the using directive you would have had to specify the namespace when you referred to the class. Like below.

Code (csharp):

1. GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Image>();

For more information or better examples I recommend checking out the official Unity tutorial for namespaces.

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/scripting/namespaces?playlist=17117

 

Thanks!