Buttons in scene not doing anything

Umbrella24

I am completely new to Godot and game design, and have a basic question. I've created several scenes which currently have buttons and labels, and clicking the buttons go to different scenes. The first couple of scenes work as expected, but on the third scene, the buttons don't do anything. I think I am doing the exact same thing for all the scenes, so I'm a bit lost on why the buttons don't work on the third one.

Umbrella24

To give a little more info, here is the script for a scene that is working:
func _on_independence_era_buttton_pressed() -> void:
'# Need to change year
'# Need to import settings for era
get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://faction_select.tscn")

And for the script that isn't doing anything:
func _on_r_1_button_pressed() -> void:
'# Need to set player faction
get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://home_page.tscn")

DaveTheCoder

To verify that the button presses are being detected, add print statements in the buttons' signal handling methods.

Here's an example:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.7/classes/class_button.html#description

Instead of printing "Hello world!" as in the example, print something more specific, such as "Home Page button pressed".

kuligs2

is the script global or attached to one of your scenes?

Umbrella24

Thanks for the responses. I added the print statement, and nothing is being printed. Also, the script is only attached to the scene. To be honest, I'm not sure how to do a global script. As I said, I am a total newbie.

DaveTheCoder

Umbrella24 I added the print statement, and nothing is being printed

In the Debugger Panel, use Debugger / Misc / Clicked Control to see if clicks on the buttons are being detected, and whether they're being intercepted by another Control node.

Umbrella24

DaveTheCoder This was a great clue. On the other scenes where buttons work, the button is the clicked control. For whatever reason, this screen has some buttons giving me the grid container, while others have the margin container. I took a snip of my setup.

I'm not sure what I did differently from the other screens, or how to even fix this.

ETA: I went back and looked at the other scenes, and I used Vbox containers, with no margins. I'm sure I set this up incorrectly, but I need to figure out how.

DaveTheCoder

The problem might be the mouse_filter property setting for the controls (margin container, grid container and buttons):
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.7/classes/class_control.html#enum-control-mousefilter

In the Inspector, it's identified as Control / Mouse / Filter. The property can also be set at runtime in a script.

Umbrella24

I have solved the problem, but don't fully understand why. I ended up having to set the mouse filter to ignore for some of the containers, as Dave mentioned. I'm still reading the documentation to try and understand why this happened for this scene only, and maybe use it in a script.

kuligs2

Umbrella24 in short control nodes capture mouse events. so if your code is in the deepest level of the node and the node is transparent or something, or the top node has some color or somehitng is not transparent, then the signal is captured by the top level node, not the deepest level.. in order to getaway with this, you either need to cycle through all the nodes in your mouse event when you click, in the mouseevent input object, or use the ui in ever top level node to set the filtering for mouse..

the documentation explains a lot of things but not specific.. imagin it like this, it explain what is peanutbutter and how to use it, and it explains what is bread and how to use it, but it dont explain that you can make peanutbutter sandwich..