Dual NVL-AVD Mode?

[SeaOtter]

Ello all!

I've been tinkering with renpy for some time and am really struggling with design. It's terribly difficult. I've been aiming for a specific dialogue layout so that there can be two textboxes on the screen at the same time. Both have different styles and either one or both of them need to be NVL.

So... well... I tried making two NVL textboxes but I didn't quite understand the documentation of that so I went off to make one NVL and the other ADV. But that didn't go smoothly. The problem I ran into was that when I switched modes through characters, the old mode would not stay on screen. I guess this is supposed to be an automatic helper so that there ISNT two windows on the screen at the same time. Idk. I suppose it involves some sort of internal coding or callback or such--probably easily changeable--but I'm just plain incapable of changing it.

Is there a way to use both modes at the same time? Or maybe there's a different way to present dialogue and narration?
(Oh, and this is my first forum post, yay! :D)

[Alex]

Try this - change the nvl screen in screens.rpy

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##############################################################################
# Nvl
#
# Screen used for nvl-mode dialogue and menus.
# http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_special.html#nvl

screen nvl:
    
  if my_var:

        frame:
            xpos 32 ypos 36
            top_padding 10 bottom_padding 10 left_padding 10 right_padding 10
            has side "c r":
                area (0, 0, 512, 200)
                viewport id "vp_1":
                    draggable True
                    yinitial 1.0
                    
                    has vbox:
                          style "nvl_vbox"
                          for who, what, who_id, what_id, window_id in dialogue:
                              if who == sp_1:
                                  window:
                                        id window_id

                                        hbox:
                                            spacing 10
                                            text who id who_id
                                            text what id what_id
                                            
                vbar value YScrollValue("vp_1") bar_invert True
                
                        
            
        frame:
            xpos 32 ypos 336
            top_padding 10 bottom_padding 10 left_padding 10 right_padding 10
            has side "c r":
                area (0, 0, 512, 200)
                viewport id "vp_2":
                    draggable True
                    yinitial 1.0
                    
                    has vbox:
                          style "nvl_vbox"
                          for who, what, who_id, what_id, window_id in dialogue:
                              if who == sp_2:
                                  window:
                                        id window_id
                                    
                                        hbox:
                                            spacing 10
                                            text who id who_id
                                            text what id what_id
                                            
                vbar value YScrollValue("vp_2") bar_invert True
        
        
  else:      

    window:
        style "nvl_window"

        has vbox:
            style "nvl_vbox"

        # Display dialogue.
        for who, what, who_id, what_id, window_id in dialogue:
            window:
                id window_id

                has hbox:
                    spacing 10

                if who is not None:
                    text who id who_id

                text what id what_id

        # Display a menu, if given.
        if items:

            vbox:
                id "menu"

                for caption, action, chosen in items:

                    if action:

                        button:
                            style "nvl_menu_choice_button"
                            action action

                            text caption style "nvl_menu_choice"

                    else:

                        text caption style "nvl_dialogue"

    add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

    use quick_menu

Then use it like

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# Declare characters used by this game.
define e = Character('Eileen', color="#c8ffc8", image="eileen", show_side_xalign=1.0, kind=nvl)
define a = Character('Aileen', color="#c8ffc8", image="eileen", show_side_xalign=1.0, kind=nvl)

# The game starts here.
label start:

    $ sp_1 = "Eileen"
    $ sp_2 = "Aileen"
    $ my_var = True
    
    e "Hi!"
    e "..."
    e "Helo-o-o-o..."
    a "Hi, I'm here"
    e "Why didn't you answer?"
    a "Sorry, was at the kitchen - made another cup of coffee..."
    e "lol"

    nvl clear
    
    $ my_var = False
    "?"

[SeaOtter]

Woo, it worked! You're brilliant :33