How to trigger overlapping panels?

Hexxxen

Bear with me I am a complete newbie to gamedev, okay, I know this is probably a dumb question but I have this problem and I couldn't find any solution online.

I have two panel containers. when mouse enters blue container prints a, red container prints b . so, cursor position 1 prints a, cursor position 2 prints b. Now I want cursor position 3 to trigger both, to print a and print b, for some reason I am unable to do that? it only prints one of them. both panels are children to control node

xyz

Hexxxen Let your program store a reminder when the mouse enters either area. Then when it enters an area again, check the reminder to see if you're already inside other area. If yes, that means that you're in the overlap zone.

Hexxxen

Here is the problem when I am hovering over blue and move towards red, red panel doesn't get triggered at all. it's like blue panel is blocking the red panel from being triggered? I don't know how will I check if it entered another area if it doesn't get triggered.

What I am asking is if there is a way to make them both trigger without one blocking the other.

Sorry if this badly explained. I am thinking of just making another panel for the overlap area with print a and print b function but I would prefer to avoid that.

Capella

Hexxxen What function do you use to handle the input events? AFAIK, there is a difference between _gui_input and _input. Only the focussed GUI element get's the event in _gui_input. And only one of your panels can have the focus. Could that be the issue?

xyz

Hexxxen Use areas instead of panels.

Hexxxen

Capella

Thanks for answering. I am using the mouse_entered signal

this script is attached to the parent node (Control):

func _on_blue_panel_mouse_entered():
	print ("a")
func _on_red_panel_mouse_entered():
	print ("b")

Toxe

Hexxxen As xyz already said you cannot solve this task with just two callbacks. Instead you need to set flags that indicate which areas your mouse is currently over (or has entered). If both are true then you know that you are in region 3.

Hexxxen

Toxe

I see, Thanks.