Queue_free timing help

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v4.3 Stable

Hi, if anyone could help me that would be really cool. I’m just really confused why this node seems to create space when it’s queue_free()’d from an attack but if I manually do it or hide it in the editor no extra space is created. I’m rather new to using control nodes and it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense

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func enemy_take_turn():
	var battle_target: CharacterBase = PartyGlobal.party.pick_random()

	var active_member = turn_queue[current_turn_index]

	var damage = randi_range(1,10) + active_member.current_agility
	
	print("==== Starting Attack ====")
	battle_target.take_damage(active_member.base_damage_type, damage, true)

	print(
		battle_target.character_name,
		" took ",
		damage,
		" ",
		active_member.base_damage_type,
		" Damage from ",
		active_member.character_name
	)

	if battle_target.current_hp <= 0:
		print(battle_target.character_name, " has died")
		
		if battle_target is CharacterBase:
			for child in player_data_container.get_children():
				if child.character_template == battle_target:
					await get_tree().process_frame
					child.queue_free()
					break
		else:
			print("Yeah, Idk Either Chief")
			return
			
		turn_queue.erase(battle_target)
	print(battle_target.character_name, " Current HP:", battle_target.current_hp)
	active_member.take_attack()
	end_turn()

func _on_button_pressed() -> void:
	player_data_container.get_child(3).queue_free()
	print(player_data_container.get_child_count())
	
	end_turn()
2

Make your PlayerPanel node a PanelContainer instead of Panel type and see if that’ll fix anything.

3

This is quite odd…

After the removal, even the text box before the cards has been re-scaled correctly

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You could try to connect the Player_Data_Container’s sort_children() signal to a method to see if it’s correctly called, tho I don’t know why it would not be…

This is very much a hack, but if it is called and yet the container does not resize itself, you could maybe try to use the signal to update a layout property of the container?

4

Try using hide() on the node to make it disappear, then use queue_free() on it.

5

Hey thanks for all the help, I figured out it was the highlighter function when I disabled it everything snapped in place after a death. Is there a safer way to move a control node during runtime or should I just use another visual indicator like a cursor or something?

var actor_to_ui := {} 

func player_turn_highlighter():
if current_turn_index >= turn_queue.size():
    return

var actor = turn_queue[current_turn_index]
await get_tree().process_frame
if actor is CharacterBase and actor_to_ui.has(actor):
	var child = actor_to_ui[actor]
	
	var tween = get_tree().create_tween()
	tween.set_trans(tween.TRANS_ELASTIC)
	var target_pos = child.position + Vector2(0,-10)
	tween.tween_property(child, "position", target_pos, 0.5).from_current()
else:
	print("Not Player Turn, Highlight check")