onInputUp event does not fire if the initial mouseDown was outside of the sprite

[pizzapizza]

I am using events.onInputUp.add on my Phaser.Sprite, but it is not working the way I need it to for my game.  If I press down on my sprite and then release, it works, but if I press down anyplace else on the screen, rollover my sprite, and then release, the inputUp event never happens even though I am over my sprite and releasing.  I need the up event to fire regardless of where the initial down event occurred.   Any ideas?

[samme]

I think you'll have to listen to

• game.input.onUp
• sprite.events.onInputOver

and then coordinate the two somehow.

[pizzapizza]

On 3/13/2018 at 5:17 PM, samme said:

I think you'll have to listen to

• game.input.onUp
• sprite.events.onInputOver

and then coordinate the two somehow.

 

That worked!  I listened for the over/out events on the sprite to keep an "isOver" variable, and then doing this on the sprite

game.input.onUp.add(function(){if(this.isOver){functionToRunOnMouseUp();}});

Thanks for the clue sending me in the right direction!