How to stop button click propagating?

kitfox

I've added a button to my UI. I'm finding when I use a keyboard event to select it, the event first propagates to Input and then UnhandledInput before the method I have connected to my buttons' signal is finally called. I want things so that if the button is clicked, only the signal is fired and the key event does not propagate any further.

Is there a way to do this?

Erich_L

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/inputs/inputevent.html

This page has a function called SceneTree.set_input_as_handled() that might help. B)

kitfox

I tried that, but the problem is that the signal is being fired after the event has already been sent to all the Input and UnhandledInput methods. There's no obvious place to put that call.

Erich_L

Could you use seperate signals?

kitfox

There is only one signal generated when the button is clicked. The _Input methods are part of the input handling system and are not signals.

cybereality

Try using gui_input for the buttons and UI, and unhandled_input for other stuff. _gui_input should consume the event, I believe I tried it at one point and the graph in the doc link above should explain it further.