Detect touch outside of panel when panel is open

[singh029]

is there an ngui way to detect when user touches outside of the panel when the panel is open.

an open panel is visible on the screen. a closed panel slides off of the screen.

I was trying to use this method

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/947856/how-to-detect-click-outside-ui-panel.html

but ngui panel and rect transform dont play well together.

Currently i just have a box collider that slides in with the panel.
There has to be a better method!

[ArenMook]

Panel, in NGUI's terms, is just a script that draws widgets. Panel has no "rect".

Now if you create an invisible widget (ALT+SHIFT+W), then it will have a rect and you can place a collider on it (ALT+SHIFT+C), thus allowing it to receive touch events.

If you want to check if your touch is within the UI, easiest thing to do is to check UICamera.isOverUI -- this will work with NGUI's events, such as OnDrag, OnHover, OnClick, etc.