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Hi there everyone!

As the title suggests I'm having some problems with PopupMenus and could use a bit of guidance from people more familiar with the engine.

I tried looking through documentation and repo issue discussions but neither of those managed to clear things up for me though it might simply be a case of me being a dumdum. Here's what I'm struggling with:

Issue #1

I'm working on a pixel art title and chose a pretty small screen size as a target (1280x1120 with the scale of 5 so I'm working on 256x224).

Because of this I use font size 11 for most of the text elements but for some reason this does not work well with PopupMenu lists, as options there end up blurry and unreadable.

I read that these elements are scaled somehow differently (or used to anyway) so my question is: is there a way to make it consistent with all the other UI elements? If so, how should I go about it?

Issue #2

I'm adding an optional CRT shader to the game. It works great with both stages and all UI elements except for PopupMenus which simply aren't affected.

Here's my scene setup. CurrentScene is a parent node to the active scene (main menu or one of the stages). I use ZIndex property to draw the CRTShader over other elements.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I forgot to mention I'm using Godot 4.3 dev3 and the PopupMenus are automatically created for all OptionButton objects.

Edit #2, in case someone has a similar issue/question: Looks like PopupMenus are rendered as separate windows rather than part of the base one. Writing my own implementation will most likely be the easiest solution to sidestep both issues.

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Original Post

I didn't make any changes in the project settings or something, but I did change some GDScript. After I did that, every time I open a different scene in the scene dock the Engine crashes. This right here is the backtrace:

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handle_crash: Program crashed with signal 11
Engine version: Godot Engine v4.2.2.stable.official (15073afe3856abd2aa1622492fe50026c7d63dc1)
Dumping the backtrace. Please include this when reporting the bug to the project developer.
[1] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3c050) [0x7fbfbac9c050] (??:0)
[2] godot::SceneTree::get_edited_scene_root() const (??:0)
[3] OrchestratorMainView::_on_scene_tab_changed(int) (??:0)
[4] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x3b38b48] (??:0)
[5] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x3ba02d0] (??:0)
[6] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x15aca36] (??:0)
[7] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x3ba02d0] (??:0)
[8] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x2391ef6] (??:0)
[9] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x23a255d] (??:0)
[10] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x20cdda5] (??:0)
[11] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x2126a2e] (??:0)
[12] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x212884e] (??:0)
[13] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x21376e9] (??:0)
[14] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x420ac0e] (??:0)
[15] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x493d3f] (??:0)
[16] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x3963f82] (??:0)
[17] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x396575f] (??:0)
[18] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x497bfd] (??:0)
[19] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x41e8a6] (??:0)
[20] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2724a) [0x7fbfbac8724a] (??:0)
[21] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7fbfbac87305] (??:0)
[22] /home/marty/Schreibtisch/Godot_v4.2.2-stable_linux.x86_64() [0x42a59a] (??:0)
-- END OF BACKTRACE --
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I can also share the project files if that would be useful (I plan on open-sourcing it either way). I am using Debain 12 (GNU/Linux) using Gnome. In the backtrace I used Godot 4.2.2, but until just now where the crashes set in, I was using the latest Godot 4.3 dev6 build. So these crashes don't occur because of the dev builds.

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