Trying to make a clickable container (that contains a TOP visual) that can detect clicks and horizontal position of them (select and u channels), but no clicks are detected currently

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I have a container that i want to click on to read clicks and horizontal position from. Inside that container I have a select TOP with the visual I want to use to click on, at 1920x1080, I have another container inside the container i will click on, with the select TOP set as it’s background. (i was told that this container had to be used to read the clicks properly because a TOP could not) the internal_container shows properly in the outside container, but clicks are not registering in the panels whatsoever (and the panels are aimed at the internal_container’s select and u channels) Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong here exactly? I am not trying to read the horizontal position of the click yet, merely trying to get the panels to register the clicks at all, and I can’t seem to figure out why this isn’t working. Is there another way i can go about making a TOP’s visual be clickable like I want to? Is a container the wrong thing i should be using for this? Is there something else? I was told a button can only be used for a toggle and single option and wouldn’t be able to send data like horizontal position though. ANY help would be greatly appreciated as I am at a stand still trying to figure this out!! I have included a .toe file of the current setup. Thank you for taking the time to read this!!! It is truly appreciated!!

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Your panel CHOPs are focused on the /project1 comp, the “component” parameter of the panel CHOP is how you specify the panel COMP you want to be getting panel values from. The Select par is the list of panel values you want from that comp. Right now you have a path to the container in your Select par, move that path to the Component parameter, and the just put select and u in the Select parameter of the Panel CHOP(s). You will want to specify your internal comp I believe as the Component, not the parent in order to get select/clicks on that internal comp.