TextureButton Theming

[Jalkhov]

Hello everyone...

These days I realized that in the theme editor does not appear to add the TextureButton as an item, investigating, the only related thing I found was godotengine/godot#39344, and I would like to know why this is not possible. I will explain the need that came to me and you will say if there is another way to achieve it, I must clarify that I am not an expert in the engine.

What I wanted to do was: Inside a GridContainer place some images, and the user could select some of these, and I thought that the TextureButton with Toggle mode and a Group came as a ring to my finger, the need comes when I wanted to give a different appearance to the button when it is selected and when it is hovered, and the TextureButton was not in the list of items, is there any way to achieve this? And if so, why it is not possible to do it from the theme editor?

[theraot]

My guess for the reason why TextureButton does not have theme properties is that you can use StyleBoxTexture with a regular buttton.

I do not understand why you need TextureButton for your use case (note: button_group and toggle_mode are members of BaseButton, so Button and LinkButton also have them).

Thus, I'd argue you should use Button.

By the way, if you already have styling for Button in your Theme, know that you can have multiple styles for Button on the same theme using Theme type variations.

And if that is not enough to get the style you want, know that a Button can have children, so you could have a Panel or PanelContainer and a Lebel (so you can use LabelSettings) or RichTextLabel (So you can use BBCode) inside the Button (you can leave the text empty, and use the Lebel or RichTextLabel inside).

[Jalkhov]

I see, thank you very much for the guidance, as I said I am not an expert on the engine, but I did consider the idea of assigning a child to a Button, I just wanted to get out of the doubt of why I could not and have another point of view, in the end my solution (for now) was:

Button
└─ TextureRect

Thank you very much for the guidance again.