Print occurring twice even though only called once

pichettl

Hello!

I have a Player scene that doesn't have a script attached to it, and then in my world scene I have an instance of the Player scene that has the Player script attached to it.

I have: print($"./Sprite") whenever my player presses a movement-based key (as I'll be doing pokemon-based movement and sprite changing for my test-game).

Upon tapping the key twice I get: [Sprite:1278] [Object:null] [Sprite:1278] [Object:null]

printed as output

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TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @pichettl!

Is there another print statement anywhere in the code that may also be triggered when you move the player? Any easy way to check if another print statement is what is causing the issue is to temporarily comment out the known print statement(s) and see if the other ones still appear.

pichettl

@TwistedTwigleg said: Welcome to the forums @pichettl!

Is there another print statement anywhere in the code that may also be triggered when you move the player? Any easy way to check if another print statement is what is causing the issue is to temporarily comment out the known print statement(s) and see if the other ones still appear.

Yes, upon commenting out that print statement they all disappear.

I've seen others attach a script to the root node of the player scene and they were able to move around with that, whereas I have to attach the script to the player instance. Furthermore, it may be useful to know that my Player script is Global.

TwistedTwigleg

Is it possible you have two player scripts running at the same time? It seems unlikely, but that could explain why you are getting two prints per key press.

cybereality

Can you show that part of your code that is calling the print statement (the whole function). It may be that there is some error, for example if you are registering both key down and key up, or maybe multiple key bindings for the same event.

DaveTheCoder

Try changing the print() to: print($"./Sprite", ", %s, %s, %s") % [name, owner, filename]) and see if any of those additional values differ in the output.