Restricting events to within a clipped panel

[jmclaren]

Is there a way to restrict events triggering such as button pushes and dragging, to within the bounds of a clipping area of a Panel on a draggable panel?

In most situatiions I can get round it by putting masking collision boxes above and below the draggable area, but this isn't always possible. For example when it comes to a scrolling panel on a non modal popup. ie I still need to be able to select things above and below the popup, when the popup is up.

Any ideas?

[ArenMook]

Create a collider that will cover the area outside the clipped panel. It's not ideal, but that's the only way.

[jmclaren]

Yes, that is what I am doing, but that doesn't allow for the non modal popup.

Imagine you are playing an rpg and you bring up an inventory popup,  there is no way as far as I can see just to mask touches directly behind the popup, and not the area around it. Therefore I wouldn't be able to have a scrolling inventory panel, without interfering with gameplay.