How do I know which item in a VBoxContainer was clicked?

DanielKotzer

I have a few nodes inside a VBoxContainer, what is the simplest way to know which item was clicked?

BaseCrusher

There are a few ways to implement this. But since I do not know what nodes are being clicked it's a litle bit hard to give an exact answer.

I would say you could use the "self" member variable in order to get to node runtime id. With it you can check in a gdscript if it matches and execute the code that you want to be executed.

If you give me more detailed informations on what you are trying to to I probably cout give you a better solution. :)

DanielKotzer

I want to make a search engine that looks for items in a Sqlite database and present each time 25 results per page, the results are created at runtime, and the items are children in a VBoxContainer. found the solution:

		var key = data.keys()[i]
		var newItem:HBoxContainer = HBoxContainer.new()
		#newItem.size_flags_horizontal = 3
		#newItem.size_flags_vertical = 3
		newItem.anchor_left = 0
		newItem.margin_left = 0
		newItem.anchor_right = 1
		newItem.margin_right = 0

		newItem.rect_min_size.y = 154
		newItem.set("custom_constants/separation", 20)
		$ScrollContainer/Result_Items.add_child(newItem)
		newItem.connect("gui_input", self, "_item_was_clicked",[key]);

I'm sending the key with the signal function [key], this way I know which item in the Dictionary was clicked.