(Unsolved!!) Help. How to hide the textbox

[csky]

So I have been ruthlessly googling all over "How to hide the textbox in renpy" to no avail so I had to give in and find a forum to ask a question on. So I hope someone here can help me.

I want to hide the textbox during some scenes completely. I know about the $renpy.pause command but I can't really figure it out and how to do the job I want. Let me describe the scene to you.

I have a sort of animated intro scene (That shows the title and a couple of credits. The background for this is an image that slowly zooms out over the course of 20 seconds, so it is no static.

At the moment I have it, s every 3 seconds or so, the credits (currently txt but saved as png files) fade in and out until finally the title fades in and out and we get back to the game. The problem here though, is two things.
1. That obtrusive textbox is visible during that scene at the bottom. I don't want to see it.
2. This all happens in one go without clicking. If you click its going to skip it. I would rather have it, so with each click you show the next text sprite (these credits saved as png) rather than waiting for them to automatically load. However I still want the background to be constantly zooming out over the course of those 20 seconds. So each time you click it shows the next credit, but it doesn't affect the background and at the same time as this NO TEXTBOX in sight.

I will be eternally grateful for someone who can help me successfully.


(on a side note, what is the code for non-image text again? if you can think of a solution using that sort of text I don't mind. But it would have to have special fonts in it. ((I'm new to this still so...)))

[Donmai]

You just need to use

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window hide

and

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window show

to hide/show the dialogue window.

To zoom the background you can use ATL (http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html# ... n-language).
Try something like

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scene your image:
        truecenter zoom 1.5
        subpixel True
        linear 60.0 zoom 1.0

[csky]

I'm sorry but it didn't work at all! I tried that command but it didn't work for me.

[SONTSE]

i'm not sure if it is right thing to do but at times like this i'm using Characters

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define hide_textbox = Character(None,window_background=None)

when i call the Character - textbox hides and desired text appears (and if i don't want any text simply leave the quotes empty)

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    hide_textbox "Hello world"
    hide_textbox ""

[Alex]

You'd better show your current code to let people find the problem and explain it to you.

[mjshi]

Maybe put:
$ _window_during_transitions = False

just before the credits roll, so that the textbox isn't shown while fading in and out.

[fluxus]

'window hide' and 'window show' ought to work - I'm doing it often myself, switching between narration, backgrounds and user interaction.

You're using the splashscreen label for all this, right? Intro section before main menu gets up and running?
Paste in your code for that label (or whichever code is relevant) between code tags, and it'll be easier to pinpoint the trouble :>