How do I change focus neighbour of a button?

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How do I change focus neighbour of a button?

LivingPlasma

Hello, I'm trying to make UI for my game and making a button that changes its own focus neighbour when pressed:

$SettingsButton.focus_neighbour_left = $ItemGrid/Slot2

But when I press the button, it gives this error:

Invalid set index 'focus_neighbour_left' (on base: 'TextureButton') with value of type 'TextureButton'.

I tried searching but I don't understand what this error is telling me or how to fix it.

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @LivingPlasma!

I think the issue is that focus_neighbor_left expects a NodePath, not a direct reference to the node itself.

So instead of $ItemGrid/Slot2 instead you want to use NodePath("ItemGrid/Slot2") and then it should work :smile:

Likely internally the Control-based node then uses get_node to get the node from the node path, but it doesn't appear the reference to the node can be directly set except through the node path.