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Marco Vanossi
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Is it possible to detect when a specific text object has been tapped? I’m able to do that with image objects by adding the touch element with the mesh set to the image object but when I try that with a text object it doesn’t work. Thanks
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    Olha
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    Hi, Marco!

    No, we can't detect tap on Text. But this will be fixed in the next studio release!

    Here is what you can do now:

    • Create an image and make it a child of the text 

    • On the text component click Advanced tab and set created image to the Extents Target field  

    • Set Image Stretch mode to Stretch and alpha to 0 (so it's invisible )

    Now image will always fit to the text rectangle and you can use this image as a MeshVisual of the Touch component or in the Behavior script.

    Example 

    Best 

    Olha 

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    Marco Vanossi
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    Thanks, Olha!

    I tried and it works. Only issue though is that its limited to the area of the text rectangle that has text in it. So if my text rectangle is bigger than the text itself then the image won’t extent to the full width of my text object thus making it a not so useful solution in practice.

    Thanks

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