How to modify child node's _ready and _process functions from the parent's script

Question

Hello!

I'm fairly new to the Godot world and I do understand that this might not be the most efficient or "proper" way of doing things, but I like to do things in one place and please excuse me.

How do I assign child node's _ready function from the parent node's script?

I did try

MyObjet.set("_ready", custom_ready_funcref)

didn't work.

Answer 1

If you only need to do something with a child node's _ready() function, attach a script to the child node (if you can attach it in the editor, and not trying to do this at runtime), and write the code in the child node's _ready() function.

If it's something more complicated, then please explain the problem a bit more.

Comments

I'm creating nodes using .new method in parent object's _init method. This function must be executed at run time, doesn't it?! I think what I'm trying do to is not exactly possible, I'm generating objects on the fly and trying to assign overrides of virtual initialization and processing functions at run time...

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If these are classes such that the _init() function is being used, then figure out which properties of the class must be defined outside of the class, and add them as parameters to the _init() function:

class Foo:
    var thing1
    var thing2
    func _init(item1, item2):
        var thing1 = item1
        var thing2 = item2
...

Then when it comes time to assign an object, fill in the necessary data:

var bar = Foo.new("I'm Thing 1!", "I'm Thing 2!")

Note that this is only when making a class. Regular ol' GDScript with a node that extends another node doesn't require the _init() function to be defined. Hope that helps.