Why is my click event not being detected?

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Godot Version

4.6.1

Question

I’m implementing my version of the Mahjong game for learning purposes and setting up the initial data structures like a base Tile scene that implements a click and a tween to animate its movement. For some reason the only mouse buttons being detected are the mouse wheel up and down.

func _on_input_event(viewport: Node, event: InputEvent, shape_idx: int) -> void:
	print(event.button_index)
	if event is InputEventMouseButton and event.pressed and event.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT:
		print("clicked")
		move_to_target()
		
	if event.is_action_pressed("clicked"):
		print("clicked")

I placed that print statement to make sure which event is being triggered and it only shows 4 and 5 (mouse wheel up and down). I even created an Action (“clicked”) in the project settings but also not being detected. I read somewhere that some other point in the game could be overriding the behavior for the clicks but I have no other signals connected in the entire game. Can you help me find where the issue is? the complete code is at my codeberg:

Thank you in advance

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Have you checked the “Misc” tab in the debugger, it will show you what nodes your mouse clicks land on?

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it is being captured by the main Game scene node’s ColorRect , which I don’t understand why since the Tiles are being added on top of it (in the %TileGrid node)

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It may work if you set the color rect’s mouse filter to “Ignore” or “Pass”

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thanks, that was it