Suggestion: Remove ability to click through menus/buttons.

[NoodleGuru]

Don't know if it's a bug or just not something thought of yet, and a quick search didn't find any results, but when you're in the VAB and you click to save your subassemblies, you're able to click through the buttons and remove pieces of the craft.

Thanks!

[sal_vager]

It's a bug, it was fixed in some places like the flight scene but missed in others like the editor, though it works on the sub assembly buttons.

Hopefully it'll get fixed in 0.24

[Teekin]

Even though this is an old topic, this is a recurring problem with mods. Semi-transparent windows tend to send click signals right through them.

It would be good if the whole idea of clicking through windows could be scrapped. It's a giant pain in the neck to be constantly re-loading things and fixing up mistakes that happen because some complicated part of a spacecraft is moved when designing it, or because you've unselected your target while going through a maneuver burn while messing around in some window, and so forth.

It's one of the things that make this game difficult in the long run, constantly having to be aligning windows in such a way that nothing is beneath them, and having to either re-load or fix things whenever something happens to be beneath a clicked control in a window, which is most of the time, in fact.

I cannot imagine anyone ever finding it useful to be able to click through windows.

Edited August 13, 2017 by Teekin

[linuxgurugamer]

Why are you necroing a 4year old thread?  This is a well known problem, there is no easy fix

Edited August 13, 2017 by linuxgurugamer

[klgraham1013]

Guys.  This isn't 20XX.  We live in the 90s and click through is just a problem we're going to have to live with.  Now excuse me.  I have to log on to my local BBS and play some LORD.

Edited August 14, 2017 by klgraham1013

[AVaughan]

@linuxgurugamer  I'm pretty sure that some mods have fixed it.  Kerbal Alarm Clock comes to mind. (It even has settings to turn click through protection on and off).

It would be good if Squad could provide a simple way for all mods to do the same thing.

Tagging @TriggerAu to see if he could perhaps explain how he did it, and maybe even get Squad to support an api so that other mod authors easily add click through protection.

[linuxgurugamer]

Yes, but those fixes are for specific mods, coded directly into the mod.  It somewhat inherent in the way the game was designed and developed.

That being said, I would love to hear about a simple way to fix this in ALL mods

[JPLRepo]

Nope. Not without each mod using input locks. It's the way the UI works in the game and within Unity.

[The Aziz]

I'm not sure how this works cause I spent like 5 minutes in unity, but wouldn't it be possible to attach some kind of invisible wall behind every window so that click can't get through it?

I dunno, just curious.

[DMagic]

There is a simple (to describe ) way to fix it for all mods: make everything with the Unity UI.

Find all of the old mods that still use the old IMGUI and replace them with the new UI, and never release a new mod using the old UI. Problem solved. You still need input locks for things like text input fields, or for when you need some other form of keyboard input, but that is relatively simple.