# Receiving click messages

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**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [March 11, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/receiving-click-messages/275364 "2014-03-11T02:14:27Z")\
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I’m sure this is a huge noob question, but couldn’t find the answer in the documentation or support requests:

I’m using the “Top Down” project in C++ and trying to get mouse click events.

I see that AActor has a ReceiveActorOnClicked() method, and I add that to my character class (ACodeTopDown3Character : public ACharacter), but it doesn’t get called when the player character is clicked. Do I need to do something else to ensure that this gets called?

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bEnableClickEvents needs to be true in your PlayerController class to enable the click events.

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Marc, I’m not seeing anything called bEnableClickEvents anywhere in PlayerController or AActor or anywhere in the whole code base. Are you running a more recent version of the engine than I am?

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I don’t think so. Using the most recent Rocket beta I see that variable there and to be certain you could create a blueprint that inherits from player controller and see if it has the Enable Click Events property in its defaults.

Does it not compile if you put bEnableClickEvents = true; in the constructor of your game’s player controller class?

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That’s correct; it has no idea what that variable is and it does not compile if I add that line.

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Never mind; fixed now. My mistake.

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Dear Paul,

I am not sure what version you are using,

But in my version, the latest and only version I have, Marc Audy’s information is correct:

**On line 172 of playercontroller.h**

```
// Whether actor/component click and touch events should be generated
UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category=MouseInterface)
uint32 bEnableClickEvents:1;

```

Good luck!

Rama

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Thanks, Rama – That did the trick. I’d been looking in the wrong place for this, and I’d set up my Find in Files dialog wrong so it wasn’t finding it. Derp 😉

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Yay! Glad you got it all figured out 🙂