Question UI Text Color change using OnPointerEnter/Exit

Hello,

I'm trying to change the color of a Text UI Element on Mouse Hover, i'm using OnPointerEnter & OnPointerExit to set the color to white on enter and grey on exit. this is a very simple code i wrote just to demonstrate :

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class ButtonTest : MonoBehaviour,IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler
6. {
7.     [SerializeField] private Text _text;
8.  
9.     public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
10.     {
11.         Debug.Log("Enter");
12.         _text.color = new Color(255,255,255,255);
13.     }
14.  
15.     public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData eventData)
16.     {
17.         Debug.Log("Exit");
18.         _text.color = new Color(100,100,100,255);
19.     }
20. }
21.  

This code is attached to a button that is the parent of this Text
when i hover over the Text the color changes correctly but when i exit the hover the color doesn't change to grey and stays white.

I can't seem to figure out what's causing this issue is there something i'm missing here?
Thank you guys for your help.

 

Hello,thank you for your answer,
Indeed it does work that way, but one should be able to use any color. I have found a workaround that involves resetting the color on exit before setting the new one. I'll post my code later during the day.
Thanks again

 

So OnPointerExit i call this method :

Code (CSharp):

1. private void ResetTabs()
2.     {
3.         foreach (TabButton tabButton in tabButtons)
4.         {
5.             if (_selectedTab!=null && tabButton == _selectedTab) continue; // dont reset the currently selected tab
6.             tabButton._buttonImage.color = imageIdleColor;
7.             tabButton._buttonText.color = textIdleColor;
8.         }
9.     }

and at the beginning of each Event (Enter/Click) i fist call ResetTabs() then execute the piece of code that i want and this seems to be working perfectly.
Hope this helps someone who faces the same issue

 

Hello! I found a resolution to this as I was having the same issue. A fix is to change the new Color(); to new Color32(); which is able to use values from 0 to 255 while Color is 0.1f to 1f. Hope this works!