how to get a node under mouse position in 2D scene AND ui?

belgian_street_lamp

I know I can intersect point to detect 2d bodies and areas but when I move them to a canvas layer they are no longer detected bc I assume they are no longer in world 2d. Is there a way to detect both 2d bodies and 2d bodies inside CanvasLayers?

belgian_street_lamp

context: I need this to get options for a popup menu when I right click somewhere on my screen in my game.

belgian_street_lamp

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Toxe

I don't think there is an easy way unfortunately. Maybe you could make every object listen for mouse events and then somewhere note which one your cursor is currently over.

~~But honestly, if this is just for opening a menu I would simply run through all feasible Node2Ds at the time of the mouse click and then check which one~~ Wait. Why don't you just make all your clickable items listen for mouse events and check if they have been right-clicked on? The one Node2D that gets this event was the one the user clicked on.

belgian_street_lamp

Toxe idk if I understood you correctly, but what I did was leave the node2d's to be detected the standard way (intersect point) and if the node is in the canvaslayer I attach a script that checks if mouse is in the control node (by using control's signals) and if it mouse is pressed and then it sends that it was clicked to my global script. this approach creates a lot more problems tho, fe if the window isn't focused it doesn't detect any nodes, bc I programmed my game in a way that if a window isn't focused the mouse input mode is set to ignore. ill need to think about it more...