Ren'Py 6.18.x Prereleases

[jack_norton]

I can confirm that the ATL bug I had is gone

[storykween]

Awesome; I can confirm that my game no longer freezes after pulling up an in-app purchase! Thank you!

[PyTom]

6.18.2.725)

I've uploaded a prerelease of Ren'Py 6.18.2, containing bug fixes and a number of small features I wanted to add to 6.18 before starting on the next major release. These include:

• The define statement has grown the ability to define names in non-default stores.
• The say statement now checks for the character name in store.character before the default store. This means one can do:

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  define character.e = Character("Eileen")
  
  label start:
      
      # We can now use the e variable for some other purpose.
      $ e = 0
      
      # While still using it to speak dialogue.
      e "Hello, world."
  

• The default image cache size has been increased to 16 screens worth of images.
• The new crop_relative transform property modifies the crop transform property. When crop_relative is true, crop can take floating point numbers, which are interpreted as fractions of the width and height of the original image.
• When set to false, the new keyboard_focus style property hides buttons, bars, and imagemap hotspots from the keyboard focus mechanism.
• The Mousearea screen language statement now respects the focus_mask style property, making it possible to have non-rectangular mouseareas.
• Ren'Py now includes functions that can be used to profile the memory consumption of a game, including the memory consumption of Ren'Py itself. These functions are renpy.profile_memory() and renpy.diff_memory(). The new renpy.profile_rollback() lets one more specifically see the memory consumption of the internal rollback log.
• This release fixes a subtle bug caused by incorrect analysis of for loops in screen language screens, when the iteration variable is a constant. (For example, when the iteration variable is ``define``ed somewhere else in the game.)
• DynamicDisplayable prediction has been improved.
• We display an indicator when self-voicing is enabled, telling the user how to turn it off.
• The Play action now only participates in the button selection mechanism when the channel is set to loop.
• This fixes a crash that was caused by loading many non-JPG, non-PNG image files.

This prerelease can be downloaded by going into preferences, selecting the Prerelease channel, and choosing update, or by visiting:

http://www.renpy.org/dl/6.18.2

Informally, there were a lot less changes to existing code, as compared to 6.18.1. Still, if people could test this and let me know that it worked for you, I'd appreciate it.

[jack_norton]

The character thing is very welcome but it works only if I define them with:

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character.e
character.a

etc? or I can still use the "old method"?

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$ ding = Character ('City Guard')

[jack_norton]

Another question, the new keyboard_focus works only in style or I can also use it as parameter like:

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ui.textbutton(u"Go back to main menu", clicked=ui.jumps("_return"),yminimum=60,xalign=.5,keyboard_focus=False)

(I still have some old code and too lazy to update it to new screen language )

[PyTom]

The old method sort of works. If you want, you can do:

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init python in character:
    ding = Character('City Guard')

It works as a style property, but in your example you're passing it as a style property. Just remember, as of 6.18 ui functions can be much slower than screens.