Make control nodes lose focus when clicking in any part of the screen

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Make control nodes lose focus when clicking in any part of the screen

pigna

How do you make it so that when you click away from a control it loses focus? so for example i have my button selected, but I want it so that whenever you click in any other part of the screen it loses focus.

DaveTheCoder

Try changing the Control's focus mode.
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_control.html#class-control-property-focus-mode
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_control.html#enum-control-focusmode

pigna

DaveTheCoder it works for gaining focus, but to for releasing it. If i click on an empty part of the screen focus isn't lost

ALBATI_2005

pigna
Create another Control node, which I will call "Background Control" for simplicity. On top of this node, add the Control node you're interested in; let's call "Main Control". Write code so that when the "Background Control" is clicked, it gains focus. This way, the focus is switched from "Main Control" to "Background Control". Tree structure could be this:
-Parent
--------Background Control
------- Main Control

OR this:
-Parent
--------Background Control
---------------Main Control

DaveTheCoder

Maybe only Controls respond to clicking? Does the screen have a background that's a Control, like a ColorRect or TextureRect?

Gowydot

release_focus() ?

https://godotforums.org/d/22920-how-to-remove-focus-from-control-nodes