Can I add some custom attributes to Button?

[jo17off]

Godot Version

Godot v 4.2.1

Question

I’m creating a button in the code, and I want to assign it a custom variable to use later. What ways can I do this?
I know about “expands”, but I don’t have a separate node for this button to declare variables in .gdscript of this node, because I create it in the code itself.
I want something like:

var a = TextureButton.new()
a.set("value",123) 
print("My value is: ",a.value)

‘set’ doesn’t return an error, but it doesn’t set my custom attribute to the button.
Error pops up in print: Invalid get index ‘value’ (on base: ‘TextureButton’).

[anon27500804]

You should be able to setup a button as a separate scene with the code, etc. you need, then instantiate it into your main scene with code:

Nodes and scene instances

[jo17off]

Oh, I’ve been trying to find other ways to do this. Earlier, when I was creating a separate scene, I had a problem that I couldn’t press this button. However, now I have tried and I can.

But I still want to know if it is possible to assign custom variables to standard nodes such as Button

[wyattbiker]

Try using the meta.

	var btn=TextureButton.new()
	btn.set_meta ( "name", 123 )
...
...

	var x = btn.get_meta("name")

[jo17off]

Thank you very much! It really helped.
I will try to study about meta, because I would like simpler ways to access these meta, but in this case this is the ideal way. Thanks again!