How could I make my UI usable with my keyboard?

Sosasees

[Maybe there should be a ,,UI" category in Godot Help]

I have made the World's Smallest Pause Menu. It looks like this (literally a tiny Sidebar with a Color Overlay Background):

But I am facing a problem: The game is controlled with a keyboard, but I can't use the pause menu with my keyboard, which is REALLY terrible. I can only use it with my mouse, which is not used for the actual game.

To fix this, I need to focus the Resume Button as soon as the pause menu appears. How could I go about this?

TwistedTwigleg

Maybe the grab_focus function would work? I have not tried it myself, but the description seems to suggest it might work if you call it once you’ve opened the pause menu.

Sosasees

Thanks very much! I added the line $Popup/Widget/Continue.grab_focus() to the pause_unpause() function, and it immidiately worked! This is the new pause_unpause() function, with the only difference being that the ,,Before" version had the newly added line missing:

func pause_unpause():
	get_tree().paused = !get_tree().paused
	if get_tree().paused == true :
		$Popup.show()
		$Popup/Widget/Continue.grab_focus()
	if get_tree().paused == false:
		$Popup.hide()

Now the pause menu looks like this, because the highlighted Continue Button is White, and the Highlight can be moved to the Quit Button, which is awesome and essential:

@TwistedTwigleg I'll credit your Godot Forums Profile and this Discussion in my game credits, if you don't disagree by tomorrow.

Really Fun Fact: My last 3 questions (including this one) were answered by Godot Forums moderators. This made me really feel like they care just as much as the normal users. This is really thanksworthy.

TwistedTwigleg

Awesome, I’m glad it’s working! As far as credits go, I’m fine either way. :smile:

Calinou

PS: For anyone stumbling upon this thread, grab_focus() might not always work. If it doesn't, use call_deferred("grab_focus") instead to defer the call by one frame without blocking the main thread.