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How to use hitTest with v7 events

See original GitHub issue

Before v7, we could do renderer.plugins.interaction.hitTest(point), do we have something similar in v7?

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Created a year ago
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bigtimebuddycommented, Nov 9, 2022

@Snowblaze not sure what’s going on with that error. The file is definitely in the package.

But I fixed the example so it runs.

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ShukantPalcommented, Sep 28, 2022

Yeah, the rootBoundary.rootTarget is set by the EventSystem and is the lastObjectRendered:

https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs/blob/e5cc328a2374fac1cb21915e8029d8a9bddb038c/packages/events/src/EventSystem.ts#L203

That’s because you could render something other than app.stage. If you want to do a synthetic hit test, I would suggest having your own EventBoundary.

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