GUI component could not be found when dispatching message error? SOLVED

Questions
#1

Am having trouble trying to get the gameOver GUI on screen. When program is run it says that “Component ‘/gui#gameOver’ could not be found when dispatching message ‘disable’ sent from main:/script#tetris”.

The program runs but just doesn’t display the gameOver GUI.

Other GUI being used (score GUI) works fine.

It should be possible to enable/disable the gameOver GUI without a gameOver GUI script because it is just about enabling/disabling it with no more functionality, this should be able to be done just from the main script.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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#2

It looks like you are confusing the folder structure of your project (ia the Asset panel) with the actual scene hierarchy of your collection. You do not post a message to the path of the file in your project but to how you have structured your scene hierarchy.

What does your collection look like? The url “/gui#gameOver” assumes that you have a game object with id “gui” and a gui component in that game object with is “gameOver”. Is that the case?

#3

Here is the main collection:

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you’re right, i didnt have a game object called gameOver so i add that in to the main collection here:

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but now when it runs it just has the game over GUI plastered on screen, does that mean thats an issue in the script?

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#4

Gui always show along with the game object containing it.
You can add a root node and set it to not Enabled to hide it at beginning. And then when you want to show it, use gui.set_enabled(gui.get_node("root"), true).
A simplier way is to set disable its game object.

Looking at your code I think you should know that gui has no enable, disable message, so mgs.post("/gui/gameOver.gui", "disable") will not work. Also use “/gui#gameOver” url instead

#5

All sorted, thanks all