Forcing Scripts-within-Script to show their signals in signal list UI

Shinchai

As described in the title, how do I go on about making a signal in a class that is nested in a class that is attached to a scene object to show up in the signals list
(visuals for comprehension)
Actor_Died(signal) -> (is inside) -> ActorStatus -> (instanced as a variable within) -> Actor

Points:

Signals within Actor appear as normal in the signals list, but those within ActorStatus do not.
Signals within ActorStatus work normally when connected through code.
This is for future convenience's sake
Danke

xyz

Shinchai To which instance of an inner class would you connect it? There are none in existence prior to creating some at runtime.

Shinchai

if a variable dedicated to a specific class is present, then would it not be safe to connect the desired nodes to its signals upon creation?

e.g. My Actor node always comes with Status (you could say they are inseperable, i only segregate them for OOP parroting) on initialization.

Speaking of inseperability, is creating a distinct Status class within the same file as Actor effective?

xyz

Shinchai if a variable dedicated to a specific class is present

What do you mean by that? Post the code example.

Shinchai

"Actor" class:

class_name Actor extends Area2D

#References
var status : Status

"Status" class

class_name Status extends Node

#signals
signal killed_by(source)

signal health_changed(new, old)

Now that godot knows Actor class has an explicit Status variable, it has no reason to avoid putting Status class' signals within Actor class' signal list

xyz

Shinchai Signal connections work from object to object. Declaring a variable of some type doesn't create an object of that type. You need to have a valid reference to an object if you want to connect to it.

PDeveloper

If Status is a Node, you can put it as a child node, and access it from the editor directly. This would also make the approach more modular and not rely on the Actor class having a variable or not. But like above said - Just because there is a variable does not mean the "object comes with the class", it's a reference that may or may not be null.