Toggle button that changes another button (pressed) function

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Question

So i have a button (pressed) that has a function but i want to click a toggle button to change the function of that pressed button.

Example:

func _on_button_pressed():
print(“a”)

func _on_check_box_toggled(toggled_on):
if toggled_on:
print(“b”)
if not toggled_on:
print(“a”)

So now the button press would print “b” and if i toggle again it would go back to print(“a”)

This is a basic example but i tried other ways for ~ week and i can’t figure this out.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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func _on_check_box_toggled(toggled_on):
      if toggled_on:
          $button.button_pressed.connect( FUNCTION_ONE)
      else:
          $button.button_pressed.connect( FUNCTION_TWO)

I’m not sure if this is going to work apropriately, but it worth a try

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i get invalid call:

Invalid call. Nonexistent function ‘connect’ in base ‘bool’.

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Can you show me your code?

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If i put it like this it prints A but for B i can’t use ’ not toggled_on: ’

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The $VBoxContainer/VBoxContainer/gg was a random test name at first, but it’s now
$VBoxContainer/VBoxContainer/button

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no need the “()” after pirntA and printB

in the if it should be:

$button.button_pressed.connect(printA)

in the else it should be:

$button.button_pressed.connect(printB)
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Same result, if i use “else” it gives the error now

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So whenever the check box is toggled, you want to connect the signal.
Do you also disconnect the signals at any time?

button_pressed is a boolean. Try the signal pressed instead.

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this is very werid, toggled_on is a parameter the system will give you when you changed the toggle button, you shouldn’g do this…just use toggle_on straightly…

toggled_on = printA()
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Indeed replacing button_pressed with pressed did the trick for thar error but the toggle now prints a b / b a untoggled

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I don’t understand what you want to achieve with toggled_on = printA(). This line seems wrong.

The connect function doesn’t accept a function as parameter, but a Callable instead.
You can find some examples of how to correctly connect to signals in the documentation here: Signal — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

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The toggled_on = printA() was to not get the error, now it’s not needed but i was experimenting

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I really don’t get it, at first it prints nothing as i want, then i toggle and prints A as it should as well but then if i untoggle it goes A B.

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As I have said previously:

Connecting to the signal doesn’t remove the other connected function.

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I tried disconnecting them in the editor and just use the signal from the script but it did nothing, or you mean i also need to disconnect with a similar function?

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Yes, there is the Signal.disconnect function.

A different approach would be to connect a single function to the button and within that function test, if the check-box is toggled on or off.

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That worked finally, don’t really know if it’s the proper way to do it but it works anyway, much appreciated
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