How would I go about troubleshooting this? I am stumped
#For some reason my script decided that it knows the game object but only in one function
marsh spear
Not the same object both time, the one your mailbox has is not the same as the one with your breakpoint
You can see the Object ID for self is different
wet hull
ohhh I see, thank you! 😄
Sorry I stilll don't get how do I figure out why it's nil? I did assign them, I changed the code around a little in hopes of that helping but it didn't 😅
marsh spear
You can go up the callstack and figure out what object this script is using
Look what's at mailbox.gd line 22
My guess is you have another object using pop_up_button_manager.gd
Or your mailbox creates one at runtime for some reason
You can also check the remote view (your hierarchy at runtime) and click on the problematic object and it should select it in the hierachy so you can find it easily
Also maybe I should have said this first in case you don't know but self means the object you're currently in (here, the object that has pop_up_button_manager.gd as a script)
wet hull
hmm that's odd...mailbox does not make a version of pop_up_button manager, I did make pop_up_button_manager a gllobal script though so perhaps that has something to do with it?
marsh spear
What does mailbox.gd look like?
wet hull
marsh spear
And where are you setting the value for UI_Master?
wet hull
oh wait I'm supposed to set it? I thought it was a global function so it just all references to the same thing?
wet hull
UI_master is the same thing as pop_up_menu_button_manager (which I should probably rename)
I made it a global so it (in my head) could be accessed from the mailbox
marsh spear
Oh I see! I forgot autoloads worked like that
wet hull
I don't know how else to access a script that's in a different scene 😅
marsh spear
So no you don't need to set it but it'll create its own instance of pop_up_button_manager.gd
So your issue comes from the fact that you autoload the script instead of autoloading the scene in which you have correctly linked the objects
Take my answer with a grain of salt, I haven't used autoloads in a loooong time
wet hull
Ahh okay thank you! I will try to autoload the scene and see if that works!
marsh spear
You also need to remove it from your actual game scene to prevent duplicates
wet hull
haha I noticed!
It also made my mailbox unclickable for some reason
ah it was because the UI was overlapping the screen and stopping the mouse from reaching
that's fixed
marsh spear
And did it also fix the original issue?
