Why does an instantiated scene not activate buttons when clicked?

[hegnjenre]

4.1.1

I have a preloaded 2D scene with buttons in it, they are connected to the scene’s main script via the pressed() connection. When I run this scene on it’s own, the function works correctly, but when the scene is instantiated, the buttons no longer activate their connected signal.

I have already tried to use .connect() to reconnect the signal in the _ready() function for the scene’s script, but that didn’t work either for the instantiated scene. Does anybody know why this happens? Hopefully, its a simple Godot thing that I just need to click a checkbox for which I somehow haven’t heard about.

[gertkeno]

Can you show your script and/or scene tree?

[kolja]

I’m guessing the input doesn’t reach the buttons, depending on what else is in the tree around where you instantiated your scene. Do the buttons visually react at all?

[Moreus]

Other Control nodes needed ignore Mouse,

For controller you needed grab focus in control element

[hegnjenre]

I worked it out, I was adding the instantiated scene as a child of the root node, so it was separate from the main scene. Once I changed it to be a child of the main scene, the connections worked correctly.