[Solved]Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Message

Wynchester · #1 Post by **Wynchester** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:33 am

I'm relatively new to Ren'py and have been mostly relying on other people having similar questions to me so far.
I'm not sure if I'm not looking it up right, or if this hasn't been dealt with before but here goes.

What I'm attempting to do is have a line of text that works as an alert or a pop up during certain events, mainly when a new character profile is available, a new codex entry is unlocked, or when a character gains/loses approval. All of which I can get it to do.

However, what I can't get to work, is for this 'pop up' to appear passively. I want it to act as an alert that shows up in the background, chills for five seconds or so, then shows itself out, while everything else continues to happen (characters continue to move and talk, or nvl style exposition continues on)

Is this possible?

I hope this is clear enough and thanks for any/all help!

chocojax · #2 Post by **chocojax** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:51 am

Have you tried the notify function? (http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.html#renpy.notify) I think it stays on screen for a couple of seconds before disappearing.

You can also modify the notification screen here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_sp ... tml#notify

mobychan · #3 Post by **mobychan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:52 am

It's basically a screen you show and later hide again ^^

try reading the documentation about screens:
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

SundownKid · #4 Post by **SundownKid** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:08 am

I recently implemented exactly that into the latest version of my game (and my next game).

It's basically putting a transform on a screen, that will make its alpha from 0 to 1 in a certain amount of time, and then make its alpha from 1 to 0 after a few seconds. Then you show the screen and hide it sometime afterwards.

Wynchester · #5 Post by **Wynchester** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:03 pm

chocojax wrote:Have you tried the notify function? (http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.html#renpy.notify) I think it stays on screen for a couple of seconds before disappearing.

You can also modify the notification screen here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_sp ... tml#notify

Thank you! This is exactly what I need! I was literally just using every wrong word to look it up.

Lemma Soft Forums

[Solved]Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

[Solved]Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Re: Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Re: Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Re: Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Re: Trying to make the equivalent of a pop up alert

Who is online