Issues with Grab Focus only working once

I have an inventory system, where upon loading, it will create a control node for every item in the player's possession.

After creating all the nodes, unless there is no items, it will try to grab focus.

get_child(0).grab_focus()

When the inventory is closed, the main panel is hidden with visible = false All child control nodes are removed with queue_free()

Opening the inventory again does not cause the focus to be set.

I have 2 different inventory panels, both works only the first time.

I'm not really sure where to start troubleshooting..

Try using get_child(0).call_deferred("grab_focus") instead. This delays the method call by one frame (without delaying the rest of your code).

I'm always forgetful of called_deferred() - it always seems to be related to my coding issues in some way..

I ended up changing how my code works, and separated the grab_focus() from everything else.

But now I'm aware of exactly why I ran into the problem.. everything was happening at the same time..

Thank you very much for the reply!