my scene seems to be updating before the code is finished executing?

Shadowphile

I have a problem with a flickering cursor. My display is composed of a stack of images with alphas. Every frame my code finds the position of the mouse, then sequences through the stack of images of the corresponding pixel and determines whether it has alpha zero or not until it hits an opaque background which determines what the cursor will be, which I then update.
The issue is that my cursor keeps flickering to a default white arrow, which seems to indicate that the screen is updating before my code has a chance to update the cursor.
Here is a simplified view of why I think my setup shouldn't have a problem:
I have a permanent tree node that loads a script and builds up the image stack depending on the game location, casting it onto a panoramic image sphere instantiated each time. It calls the subroutine to scan and update the cursor every _process() once my code indicates that the tree has finished building the new node. Since the screen update is not supposed to happen until all the active tree's process() functions are finished, why does my cursor update routine seem to be ignored?

xyz

Shadowphile There's no such thing as "display" in Godot unless you're communicating directly with DisplayServer. There's also no such thing as "stack of images".

You need to be precise with your terminology and use standard Godot terms when describing your setup. Otherwise we cannot know what you're actually talking about. A "display composed of stack of images" could mean different things. Is it a SubViewport with a bunch of TextureRect nodes one on top of another? Or something else entirely?

Best to post your scene structure, your actual code and a video of the unwanted behavior.

If your code/scene is too large, try to isolate the problem into a MRP and post that.

kuligs2

Shadowphile does your code run in process() or physics_process() or in both? Make sure it runs on only one process function. Other than that i dont understant wot is goin on with yar kode