Autocomplete/code complete functions not suggested

[frankhuurman]

Godot version:
3.2.3.stable

OS/device including version:
Ubuntu 20.04

Issue description:
The code editor didn't autocomplete or suggest a few built-in functions that I needed for my game and I assume are often used in other projects as well.
I expected the queue_free() function to show up in the autocomplete menu when pressing ctrl+space after typing the name of a node and a dot symbol.
I also expected the instance() function to show up in the autocomplete menu after typing the variable name + dot symbol of a loaded scene resource.
These both didn't show up or weren't suggested even while typing half of the name of the functions.

Steps to reproduce:
queue_free function
for child in scrollcontainer.get_children():
child.queue_free() # after typing child. and pressing ctrl+space, no queue_free function was suggested.

instance function
var json_node = load("Scenes/jsonparser.tscn")
var temp_inst = json_node.instance() # after typing json_node. and pressing ctrl+space, no instance() function was suggested.

Minimal reproduction project:
autocomplete-missing.zip

[Calinou]

Does it work if you use preload() instead of load()?

[frankhuurman]

preload() does add the instance() autocomplete suggestion, but it also defaults the search path string to res://Scripts/Scenes/jsonparser.tscn(which doesn't exist) instead of Scenes/jsonparser.tscn.
Not a big deal though, thanks! 😄

Do you also have a suggestion for the queue_free() function? Might it also have something to do with the editor needing to "preload" the reference to the child node before being able to use it in the editor? or is that something else entirely? :)

Thanks for the quick reply btw!

[Calinou]

Do you also have a suggestion for the queue_free() function? Might it also have something to do with the editor needing to "preload" the reference to the child node before being able to use it in the editor? or is that something else entirely? :)

For nodes, autocompletion should work more reliably if you use static typing.

[Calinou]

@frankhuurman Can you (or anyone else) still reproduce this bug in Godot 3.5 or any later release?

[Calinou]

Closing due to lack of response. Please comment if you can still reproduce this bug.

[rarysson]

Hi @Calinou, I've encountered this bug too, using v4.0.stable.official [92bee43ad] as you can see (tried on vs code and Godot editor):

And here it's the minimal reproduction project: autocomplete.zip

[Nanaschi]

Same by me it does not offer the autocompletion despite the method is valid... I would find this method if I did not know it existed..
v4.2.2.stable.official [15073af]

[HolonProduction]

Not a bug and has nothing to do with #86172, as mentioned before you will have to use static typing in order to get autocompletion for node methods. In your case, godot does not know the type of body and therefore doesn't know that its method get_node will return a Node. Try with func _on_body_entered(body: Node2D) -> void: