getting colors of RectBoxes After changing them programmatically ...

Question

so i have a series of RectanglBoxes
i update their colors to a random color every time scene loads using this:

func update_colors():
var nodes = get_node("box").get_children()
var num = 0
for box in nodes:

    rng.randomize()
    var current_color = colors_array[rng.randf_range(0, 6)]
    box.modulate = Color(current_color)

then i need to read each of those colors later so i wrote a function like this and its being used in a button click so im sure its after the boxes have been updated and got new random colors

func print_first_10_colors():
var nodes = get_node("box").get_children()
var num = 0
for box in nodes:
    if num < 11:
        var starting_point = box.color
        print( starting_point )
    num += 1

but the output prints same value for all 10 boxes:

0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
   0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1
0.811765,0.47451,0.47451,1

its printing the old color that each rectabglebox had but not the one after being updated using

box.modulate = Color(some_new_color_value)

Answer 1

That's because you're printing the color of the box and not the modulate of the box. Those are two separate properties.

Comments

box.modulate worked.
thanks!