I want to make a command such that when I use it, a form would pop up for me to complete and my responses will be DMed to me and posted in another channel afterwards. Below is the code I used (I referred to multiple YouTube tutorials) in a group cog named modal; the names and numbers are altered slightly due to privacy and stuff.

I am able to run the bot normally without any errors, and all my other cogs and commands work as normal. However, when I use the modal form command, the bot does not respond at all, despite there bring no errors printed in the console.

The numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are printed in the console when starting up the bot (why does this happen???), and when I used the modal form command, only number 0 is printed in the console, which might mean that await interaction.response.send_modal(myModal()) is not working for some reason.

What I expected to happen

• When I use the command, console prints 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 15 15 15 16 17 18 19 20
• Discord shows me a modal form with 5 questions to complete (all required, paragraph, 1000-character limit), and an embed containing my responses is sent to a text channel and my DMs after I complete the modal form
• The bot responds to the command with a message containing my username and user ID after I complete the modal form

What actually happened

• When I start up the bot, console prints 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (why???)
• When I use the command, console prints 0 (why???)
• The bot does not respond to the command (shows “The application did not respond” after a few seconds)

File: commands/slash_commands_modal.py

import discord
from discord import app_commands, ui
from discord.ext import commands
from misc.dicts import DICT

class myModal(ui.Modal, title="Why not working"):
   print("2") # debug no.2
   a1 = ui.TextInput(
      label=DICT["a"][0],
      placeholder=DICT["ax"][0],
      style=discord.TextStyle.paragraph,
      max_length=1000,
      required=True
      )
   print("3") # debug no.3
   a2 = ui.TextInput(
      label=DICT["a"][1],
      placeholder=DICT["ax"][1],
      style=discord.TextStyle.paragraph,
      max_length=1000,
      required=True
      )
   print("4") # debug no.4
   a3 = ui.TextInput(
      label=DICT["a"][2],
      placeholder=DICT["ax"][2],
      style=discord.TextStyle.paragraph,
      max_length=1000,
      required=True
      )
   print("5") # debug no.5
   a4 = ui.TextInput(
      label=DICT["a"][3],
      placeholder=DICT["ax"][3],
      style=discord.TextStyle.paragraph,
      max_length=1000,
      required=True
      )
   print("6") # debug no.6
   a5 = ui.TextInput(
      label=DICT["a"][4],
      placeholder=DICT["ax"][4],
      style=discord.TextStyle.paragraph,
      max_length=1000,
      required=True
      )
   print("7") # debug no.7
   a = [a1,a2,a3,a4,a5]
   print("8") # debug no.8
   async def on_submit(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
      print("9") # debug no.9
      channel = self.bot.get_channel(9999999999999999999)
      print("10") # debug no.10
      d = f"- Username: **{interaction.user.name}**n- User ID: ||**`{interaction.user.id}`**||"
      print("11") # debug no.11
      e = discord.Embed(title=f"Form", description=d, colour=0xe74c3c)
      print("12") # debug no.12
      e.set_footer(text="Form Response")
      print("13") # debug no.13
      q = DICT["a"]
      print("14") # debug no.14
      for i, j in zip(q, self.a):
         e.add_field(name=i, value=j, inline=False)
         print("15") # debug no.15
      await channel.send(embed=e)
      print("16") # debug no.16
      await interaction.response.send_message(f"- Username: **{interaction.user.name}**n- User ID: ||**`{interaction.user.id}`**||nnThe form is done yay", ephemeral=True)
      print("17") # debug no.17
      user = self.bot.get_user(interaction.user.id)
      print("18") # debug no.18
      await user.create_dm()
      print("19") # debug no.19
      await user.dm_channel.send(embed=e)
      print("20") # debug no.20

class SlashCmd_Modal(commands.GroupCog, group_name="modal"):
  def __init__(self, bot):
      self.bot = bot

  @app_commands.command(name="form", description="a description")
  @app_commands.describe(role="another description")
  @app_commands.choices(role = [
    app_commands.Choice(name="A", value="a"),
    app_commands.Choice(name="B", value="b"),
    app_commands.Choice(name="C", value="c"),
    app_commands.Choice(name="D", value="d")
  ])
  async def form(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, role: str):
    if role == "a":
       print("0") # debug no.0
       await interaction.response.send_modal(myModal())
       print("1") # debug no.1
    elif role == "b":
       ... # similar kind of form but different class
    elif role == "c":
       ... # similar kind of form but different class
    elif role == "d":
       ... # similar kind of form but different class

async def setup(bot):
  await bot.add_cog(SlashCmd_Modal(bot))

File: misc/dict.py

DICT = {
"a": [ # questions
    "Q1",
    "Q2",
    "Q3",
    "Q4",
    "Q5"
],
"ax": [ # placeholders
    "P1",
    "P2",
    "P3",
    "P4",
    "P5"
]
}