Display PopupMenu in 3D when clicking on Node

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Godot Version

4.6.3

Question

With reference to Display context menu in 3D when clicking on Node I want to replace my VBoxContainer with a PopUpMenu element.

I am setting the position of the PopUpMenu by using

%PopupMenu.position = offset

where offset is the Vector2 screen coordinate.

But no matter what I do, the PopUpMenu always appears in the top left corner of the screen.

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Is there anything I am missing here?

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PopupMenu.position, as an inherited property from the Window class, seems to have some rules attached to it.

The doc I linked mentions: “Note: This property only works if initial_position is set to WINDOW_INITIAL_POSITION_ABSOLUTE.”

Is this the case?

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Yes, that is the case.

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Well, the doc also mentions calling one of the many popup* methods, which take a Recti as parameter for positioning.

Have you tried using that?
It worked for me, I’m quite sure.

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Thanks, that pointed me in the right direction! :slight_smile:

func positionMenu(offset: Vector2):
	self.show()
	if offset:
		var rect: Rect2i = Rect2i(offset.x, offset.y, 800, 800)
		%PopupMenu.popup(rect)

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That approach makes sense. Another option is to project the 3D click position into screen space and then show a regular PopupMenu at those screen coordinates. You still get the context-menu behavior, but without having to build a fully interactive 3D UI.

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@jamie Isn’t that what I am doing here? I am using the PopupMenu and have no 3D UI.