Cannot access Label in script | Godot Café | Page 1

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:15 AM

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Okay I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm new to godot so I still don't understand everything :D
I have a script attached to a VBoxContainer and inside this container i have a Label: "fingerCounterLabel".
The problem is when I try to access the Label in the script I get the error that the Label is a null instance, so that the script can't acces the label.
And yes I have checked if the Label name is written correctly and I have checked if the label really is inside the VBoxContainer but I still can't get it to work

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:17 AM

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When do you call the function?

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:17 AM

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when i press a button which is in another script

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:19 AM

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try getting the label with @onready var finger_counter = $fingerCounterLabel on top of your script and see if that works. Have you checked the remote tree on runtime?

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:20 AM

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Sadly this still does not work
and do you mean that i should check if the label exists on runtime?

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:20 AM

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yes.

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:21 AM

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idk if thats correct but when i look into the remote tree while running the script i can see the label

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:22 AM

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Are you sure your code is in the correct script? Or maybe there is something funky going on with your other scripts

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:23 AM

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yeah the code is in the correct script but i can see if i can arrange the scene a bit differently and check if that works

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:24 AM

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Can you also send the whole scene tree?

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:25 AM

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and another side question if i just want to group different nodes together what node should i use for that cus i used the canvasGroup but i dont think that thats correct

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:27 AM

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try right clicking on the label and setting it to unique name (%)

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Then use %fingerCounterLabel to access it

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:27 AM

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wide pollen and another side question if i just want to group different nodes together what ...

That's indeed not good practice. If you don't want to automatically order them, use just Node2D

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:28 AM

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last mortar Then use `%fingerCounterLabel` to access it

still not working like i said im probably gonna try to rearrange the scene a bit to see if i can somehow make it work

wide pollen Oct 21, 2023, 9:28 AM

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last mortar That's indeed not good practice. If you don't want to automatically order them, ...

okay thank you for the tip :D

last mortar Oct 21, 2023, 9:30 AM

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No this def should work. I think there is something going on with your scene!

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