Animated controls

msnawe

I am new to godot so learning how to use the various nodes available on a first projet.

I am planning to make a simple game consisting of several cards placed face down. Then choosing cards to find the matching pairs. then place new cards face down and play again.

To make it easier, I use Texture buttons for the cards. (would you use something else?) . So I start back loading the back cover texture on all the cards in the grid. Then when someone clicks on a card (texture button) the signal leads to a call back function that loads the front card picture.

This works but when I have a winning pair, I would like to highlight these cards (eventually animate by blinking them or something like this). But it seems that: - I can not draw on the texture from the initial callback context following the press event. I can only draw from the draw function. - when I move code from the callback to the draw function, I have to resort to variables to condition whether to draw or not in _draw. is it how we are supposed to do this in Godot? - I can not get a timer timeout to work. The function just continues without waiting for the timeout signal.

I am using something like this (t being a timer node)

func wait (s):	
	print('wait ' + str(s))
	t.set_wait_time(s)
	t.set_one_shot(true)
	t.start()
	yield(t, "timeout")
	print('timeout ' + str(s))

Any reason for this?

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @msnawe!

@msnawe said: I can not draw on the texture from the initial callback context following the press event. I can only draw from the _draw function.

Yeah, unfortunately you can only draw to a CanvasItem node in the _draw function. You will need to call the update() function in your callback to trigger the _draw function being called, and then make the adjustments there.

when I move code from the callback to the draw function, I have to resort to variables to condition whether to draw or not in draw. is it how we are supposed to do this in Godot?

If it works, then I would not worry too much about it. That is how I would handle it, and if it becomes an issue later down the road, you can always refactor. I always try to get something working first, and then make it pretty and/or optimize through refactoring later once needed. I find it can be easy to fall into unnecessary premature optimization otherwise.

I can not get a timer timeout to work. The function just continues without waiting for the timeout signal.

I've never really used timers or gotten them to work myself. I'm sure there is a way though, and hopefully someone who knows how they work can chime in!

The only thing I can think of that might be causing the issue is that the wait time, s is too long that it seems like nothing is happening, but given you are printing the time, I do not think this is the issue. Maybe the one-shot part is causing the issue? I would perhaps try using code like this and see if it works:

func wait (s):  
	print('wait ' + str(s))
	t.set_wait_time(s)
	t.start()
	yield(t, "timeout")
	t.stop()
	print('timeout ' + str(s))

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