Wrong signal function suggested to the wrong programming language. #65844
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Godot version
3.5.stable.mono
System information
Fedora 35, Mesa Intel HD Graphics
Issue description
I use C# as my main programming language on Godot. I have been following the https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/first_3d_game/index.html "Your First 3D Game" tutorial and I have found a bug in the engine (and a typo in the documentation).
Please, take a look at this picture.
As you might notice, the documentation states that the "_on_MobTimer_timeout()" function will be returned, and, indeed it is returned. Now what's wrong, is that it assumes you are using GDscript. The same happens in the engine:
As you can see, a GDScript function is returned into the C# script. The user will automatically assume that the engine has given the right function to be used in the script. Now, when used, the function will give an error:
The user will be clueless as to why this error has been given since it was supposed that the engine AND the documentation have given the right function. Instead of being "private void _on_MobTimer_timeout()" AND outside the main class, it should have been "public void OnMobTimerTimeout()" and appended inside the main class.
Now, I understand some of you might say "its a missing feature, not a bug" well it's a bug because this version I'm using explicitly supported C# and is suggesting the function to the user all by itself which the user will assume is right. Some of you might say "this is unnecessary".. it is necessary because this is a C# version that is advertised, both in the engine itself and in the documentation as the equivalent to GDscript so it deserves the same support in it's own version in the engine as GDscript gets.
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