Hi all, new to programming. I am updating text on UI to decrease when I shoot. I know how to do it now, but below I have 2 examples that vary only slightly.
The example, where I initially set the variable to be the node does work.
The example where I initially set the variable to be a property of the node does not work.
It's not a huge deal, but for future reference, could anyone explain why?
in the first example your variable (laser_label) is of the type the node that you assign. And under the hood you are calling the set_text() function of that note in your update_laser_text() method. Which will update the attribute of said node.
In the second example your variable (laser_label) is of the type string so you are assigning that string the new value, but as that string is never given to the label node you wont see a change. If you add an print(laser_label) in the second version you will see that it in fact changes whenever you call update_laser_text() but you do not see the change ingame.
I hope that helped you.
Kind regards, KowalewskajA
faasdf Well, in short: You cannot do that. I mean, you technically could but it cannot do what you want.
In your second example laser_label stores the reference to the String property of your label. When you assign a new String to laser_label you overwrite the variable with another String reference which makes it forget the previous reference which was the text property of the label.
KowalewskajA
hi,
I think I understand. The second example, the string I set up isn't actually affiliated at all with the node, but rather its own separate entity just with the same value of the node property I set to begin with?
