GUI HUD ignores mouse

[magicaxis]

Hello
I'm guessing this may be kind of a n00b question, but there's nothing about this in the tutorials

I'm making my first game in Irrlicht, and RTS, with mouse control:


and when you select a tile (by clicking on it) it lights up and some gui button appear on the screen (not in a gui window mind you, I like it this way):


However, since i switched to mouse control, the buttons wont register my mouse clicks, the click goes straight through to the tile behind the button and selects that instead:


Is there a way I can say "Buttons get top priority for clicks"?
I'm using MyEventReceiver, which i've messed around with to accept mouse clicks and that.
I get that this would probably not be a problem if i put the buttons in a window, but I really dont wanna have to do that.
Thanks a bunch

[serengeor]

I'm guessing this may be kind of a n00b question, but there's nothing about this in the tutorials

Tutorials can't cover every scenario possible.

Is there a way I can say "Buttons get top priority for clicks"?

It's up to you to think out a way which would let you do as you want. I can only suggest to try for example to only let select tile when no gui element is hovered (look up on documentation how to get what element is hovered), and also maybe gui is not receiving events, because your receiver returns true on mouse events. Other receivers (gui and other things have their own) will not receive events for which you return true in your receiver.

I actually had sort of similar problem myself. The buttons were getting events, but I could also select things in my editor while pressing those gui buttons, which is not that good if you want to interact with gui.

[magicaxis]

Thanks man, that helps heaps. I turned off all the return trues in the event reciever, and made my program ignore mouse activity in the 3d realm once the mouse's position entered the GUI area <3

[shadowghost21]

Yeah serengeor's solution is what CuteAlien suggested for the same problem I was having. I just posted about this a few days ago. Like the look of your game