Help getting Spinboxes to work with controller

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Godot 4.3

Whenever I navigate to a spinbox, the focus enters the textbox and there’s no way to navigate to anything else in my settings menu. Is there a way to make it focus on the arrow buttons instead? If not, are there any workarounds besides building something like a spinbox from scratch?

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In the inspector, under Focus, select the nodes you want to go to if you move right or left, and then you won’t get stuck.

Then just add a script to the spinbox. Something like:

func _input(event):
	if event.is_action("ui_up"):
		value += step
	elif event.is_action("ui_down"):
		value -= step
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This works well! Is there a way to make it slower? It is quite fast at spinning up numbers, any way to play with the sensitive-ness of it?

4

Yes. Change the Step value.

5

I meant outside the step value, I need the step to be big increments of exactly 100 so that’s not really an option, I meant the speed that the step gets updated while holding down arrow keys?

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event.is_action will trigger for pressed and released actions, and potentially echo actions. If you are using a controller this may also trigger for every angle tilted up past the deadzone.

This snippet should be more controlled and potentially significantly slower

var stepable: bool = true

func _input(event):
	if stepable and event.is_action_pressed("ui_up"):
		value += step
		stepable = false
	elif stepable and event.is_action_pressed("ui_down"):
		value -= step
		stepable = false
	elif event.is_action_released("ui_up") or event.is_action_released("ui_down"):
		stepable = true
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This works! It no longer gets triggered a bunch of times while holding down arrow keys so that helps. Cheers!