Label text not updating and erroring instead

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Godot Version

godot 4.3

Question

Invalid assignment of property or key ‘text’ with value of type ‘String’ on a base object of type ‘null instance’.
this is being returned when i run this code:
‘’‘func money_add(newmoney):
money += newmoney
$GUI/Balance.text = str(money)’‘’
the function is in an autoload and is called by instances that needs to update the players money
label in the gui before disappearing. The path should be correct as i have replaced it multiple times and not changed the location of it

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Clearly the path is incorrect…

the function is in an autoload

…because the script is in an autoload. This puts it in the SceneTree, unlikely that the $GUI/Balance NodePath resolves to anything beneath it the autoload; you can verify this in the Remote tab when debugging.

As an alternative, consider using signals to update the label instead.

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Is the GUI a child of the autoload? If it is, did you add the .tscn file as an autoload or just the .gd file?