Manually trig "hide" event when closing menu with Return()

[nekoman]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Renpy, forgive me if this topic already have an answer somewhere (I didn't find it though).

I'm building a right click menu, using the "screen language". One of the widgets should have a transform that changes its behavior depending on if the menu it's opening or closing.
Well, using the "on" statement, since the "show" event is called, everything goes fine. The problem is that the action Return() doesn't trigger the "hide" event. I think is because the menu is called on a new context.

Anyway, there is a way to trigger manually the "hide" event when closing a screen with Return(), or maybe there is some trick to solve this problem?

[dyrarendy]

Can i see your Script that contains Return() and "hide" event ?

[xela]

There is a weird bug there even without using Return. I doubt he's doing anything wrong. There are plenty workarounds (I just don't know which one to suggest without seeing the code) and maybe PyTom can fix it in 6.18.

[nekoman]

Can i see your Script that contains Return() and "hide" event ?

The actual screen script is a bit long. I'll type an equivalent.

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# Need some setup to work
init python:
    # setup transitions
    config.enter_transition = Dissolve(0.3)
    config.exit_transition = Dissolve(0.3)

    # set game menu entry screen
    _game_menu_screen = "myscreen"

#-----------------------------------------------

# A transform for the button
transform mytransform:
    align (0.5, 0.5)
    on show:
        xoffset 300 alpha .0
        easein .2 xoffset 0 alpha 1.0

    # this doesn't trig with Return()
    on hide:
        easein .2 xoffset 300 alpha .0


#-----------------------------------------------

screen myscreen:
    tag menu

    vbox at mytransform:
        textbutton "Close" action Return()

This is an expected behavior since in manual says explicitly that Return() doesn't trig the hide event.
I think this is a big limitation.

Anyway I wanted to know if there is a manual way to trig the event.

[xela]

I thought you meant something competely different...

Did you try:

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textbutton "Close" [Hide("myscreen"), action Return()]

by any chance?

[nekoman]

I thought you meant something competely different...

Did you try:

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textbutton "Close" [Hide("myscreen"), action Return()]

by any chance?

Yes, it doesn't work.
Also I trying switching using variables but since the two calls belongs to different context, I couldn't get it work.

P.S.

I actually tried:

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textbutton "Close" action [Hide("myscreen"), Return()]

[nyaatrap]

When you call a screen using renpy.calls_in_new_context, transforms don't work when you close it with return. I think transforms are killed while executing return operation even it starts working. (When it called by renpy.call_screen, then it works correctly)