Interrupt instanced scene

Question

Hi everyone,

I have a function instancing a scene with a tween-animation:

func add_that_instanced_scene():

    var scene_with_tween = preload("res://general-stuff/TheScene.tscn").instance()

    add_child(scene_with_tween)

So there is only a sprite within that instanced scene which is being animated by a tween, starting the animation the moment it's added. It queue_free()s itself at the end of the animation.

I'm trying to find a way to „interrupt“ that animation, basically „cancelling“ the instance early under certain circumstances, say on a certain button press for example. Is it possible to „manually queue_free“ an instanced scene while it's „still running“?

Comments

Tôi củng tùng bị như vậy nhưng có cách giải quyết :)

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Well, we're listening ; )

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Edit:

Within the same script that instances the scene, I want it to "self destruct" immediately as soon as, in this case, focus_out() happens, so it calls the function nowyouseemenot() within:

func _focus_out():
scene_with_tween.nowyouseemenot()

So within scenewithtween:

func nowyouseemenot():
print ("begone!")
queue_free()

"begone!" is being printed! But the scene is not being destroyed... I tried visible = false as well and for the Child-Node (Sprite) $Sprite.queue_free()... but nothing happens.

What am I missing?

I'd like to add another EDIT:

Pausing appears to fit in this as well. If I pause the game, everything "freezes" properly, except for the instanced scenes - they finish their "cycle" while everything else stands still. So obviously get_tree().paused = true only applies to the scene containing a script with that line but does not apply to any currently instanced scene.
So the question is, how can a currently running instanced scene be integrated into a "pausing"? Any thought on this is much appreciated!

Answer 1

And Tween.stop_all ( ) doesn't interrupt animation? It is possible to „manually queuefree(). You do just that call queuefree() on Node you added.

Comments

Thanks for your reply, yrtv.

It's more about the whole instanced scene than only the tween within. I wonder how I can "free a whole scene early" while it's still doing something (like a tween animation for example, but anything really). "un-instancing" a scene (even if it's not "finished" yet), if you will... "destroying" it, so to speak.