Identifier "icon" not declared in the current scope

[anton08]

Godot Version

Version 4.1.2

Question

I can’t figure this error out
ERROR: Identifier “icon” not declared in the current scope.
THE SCRIPT: var new_icon = icon.instantiate()

[pennyloafers]

What is icon?

[anton08]

The entire script looks like this

func _input(event):
if event.is_action_pressed(“click”):
var new_icon = icon.instantiate()
new_icon.position =
get_viewport().get_mouse_position()
add_child(new_icon)

[anton08]

supposedly if i click new icons will appear

[pennyloafers]

Where is icon declared?

[anton08]

I am a newbie so i don’t really understand

[pennyloafers]

Icon isn’t a Godot class/node so I presume it is something you created? How did you create it?

[anton08]

I am reading this book about GDScript that i got from amazon and then i typed in the script from the book

[pennyloafers]

Since you are calling instantiate() I think icon should be a scene resource. But if you didn’t var icon = load("res://icon.tscn") icon doesn’t exist in the script. This is why it throws the error.

[anton08]

I’ll look into it