How to stop labels from playing early?

[hrodohaidis]

Apologies for lack of a better title, I have no idea exactly what you would call this.
Also, a disclaimer that I'm completely a noob when it comes to programming and ren'py. This explanation will be confusing and full of idiotic mistakes.

Anyways, I've been trying to make a mystery-type game where the player has to explore a house and find clues. I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I haven't found anything online yet, so I went to make something myself.

My basic idea was that every room would have arrows (text buttons for now) pointing to new 'areas' to explore. Right now, I'm using screens to create a menu of options for the player to choose. (I hope this isn't confusing!)

This is my code... (in the screens.rpy)

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screen living_1_options:
    hbox:
        xpos 650
        ypos 410
        textbutton "right" action Jump("living_2")
        textbutton "piano" action Jump("living_piano")
        textbutton "kitchen" action Jump("kitchen_1")

screen living_2_options:
    fixed:
        textbutton "stairs" xalign 0.33 yalign 0.5 action Jump("living_stairs")
        textbutton "nook" xalign 0.33 yalign .75 action Jump("living_nook")
        textbutton "left" xalign 0.33 yalign 1 action Jump("living_1")
        
screen living_stairs_options:
    fixed:
        textbutton "up" xalign 0.33 yalign 0.5 action Jump("hall_1")
        textbutton "right" xalign 0.33 yalign .75 action Jump("living_2")
        textbutton "left" xalign 0.33 yalign 1 action Jump("living_1")
        
screen hall_1_options:
    fixed:
        textbutton "down" xalign 0.33 yalign 0.5 action Jump("living_stairs")

ignore the fact I only used hbox once, I was trying to experiment there...
That's how I did the menus, and then I implemented them like so... (in script.rpy)

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label living_1:
    scene living_1 with fade
    show screen living_1_options
    
label living_2:
    scene living_2 with fade
    show screen living_2_options

label living_stairs:
    scene living_stairs with fade
    show screen living_stairs_options

So far, I haven't gotten any error messages, but my issue is that the label 'living_1' or such will play, and the choices will be shown and selectable, but the label 'living_2' will play after the choices are shown, and those choices are shown as well, and the cycle continues with 'living_stairs'. Is there anyway to make the label "pause" and allow the player to make a choice without playing the other labels or is this impossible? Also, is there any code that allows exploration of areas better than this? Thank you!

[Queex]

By default, when ren'py reaches the end of one label, it will carry straight onto the next one.

Screens are probably not the way to approach this problem, actually, at least as a novice. the menu command offers choices and handles different branching, with simpler syntax.

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living_1:
    menu:
        "right":
            jump living_2
        "piano":
            jump living_piano
        "kitchen":
            jump kitchen_1

living_2:
    menu:
        "stairs":
            jump living_stairs
        "nook":
            jump living_nook
        "left":
            jump living_1

living_stairs:
    menu:
        "up":
            jump hall_1
        "right":
            jump living_2
        "left"
            jump living_1

That gives you the flow you want, and you can put scene statements and show statements wherever you need them in before of after the choices are shown.

[philat]

I agree with Queex, but when you do want to fiddle with screens, try studying the code here: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 51&t=20541