How to update screens correctly?

[Ryue]

I've a question in regards to screens that take parameters and how they are updated when the parameter is changed.

I've got the following screencode:

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screen RedEyesRPGEngine_CombatInitiativeList(initiativeList, currentlyActiveChar):
    hbox:
        spacing 5
        for initiativePosition in initiativeList:
            frame: 
                fixed:
                    xmaximum 64
                    ymaximum 90
                    if (initiativePosition == currentlyActiveChar):
                        add ImageReference("Combat" + " " + "Status" + " " + initiativePosition.ImageName + " " + "Ready")
                        add ImageReference("CombatUI InitiativeSlotBorder") 
                    else:
                        add ImageReference("Combat" + " " + "Status" + " " + initiativePosition.ImageName + " " + "Ready")

InitialiveList is a list of characters at specific initiative positions. CurrentlyActiveChar is the currently acting character.
(Call:

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renpy.show_screen("RedEyesRPGEngine_CombatInitiativeList", self.InitiativeList, self.CombatCurrentlyActiveChar)

)


Now it displays the whole thing quite nicely BUT when I change self.CombatCurrentlyActiveChar the "ImageReference("CombatUI InitiativeSlotBorder") " is still at the old location. So my question is there what am I doing wrong there?

Edit:
The line where I change it is the following (I also tried adding renpy.restart_interaction to no avail):

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            for currentChar in self.InitiativeList:
                self.CombatCurrentlyActiveChar = currentChar
                renpy.restart_interaction()

[philat]

I'm not 100% sure because I haven't delved into screen language and really studied the inner workings, but based on my experiences with other things, I would assume it's the usual name tags not boxes problem. http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 96#p362587 (see also the link in that post)

In other words, show the screen again.

[xela]

In other words, show the screen again.

Yeap, it's a bit weird that you assume that they should be updated when if it was a function, transform or a method you use in Python/Ren'Py, they would not be... You can also use global or default, default you can update with screen actions and global will be updated when interactions restarts (and screen is updated).

[orz]

It's hard to pinpoint with only this section of code. It might actually have to do with how you've defined ImageReference, but all I can do is guess with this amount of code (because it references other code and who knows what that's doing).