How to make a screen?

[Bartulisica]

Hello fellow VN creators and fans.
I'm still new to Ren'Py, so I have a question.
I'm not sure if someone already asked, but I looked everywhere, on this page
on wiki, even some blogs related to this and I can't find the script explaind well enough for me to understand it.
So, I'm trying to create an inventory screen (nothing too complicated for now, just a button and a popup screen).
Can anyone please write me a script that places a button ingame that will, when clicked, open the screen, and ofcourse define what is needed.
I've been trying whole night with textbutton,imagemap, and screen commands, and I just can't get it right.
I actually managed to manipulate the menu options with imagemap, but in the script.rpy it doesn't work.

One more simple question (so I don't have to put another topic..): if you use action statement, can it be followed with commands like show,hide,play music "x" etc. or does it have to be a specific command compatible with action statement?

Thanks in advance!!

[Evildumdum]

Edit* rightly pointed out i didnt use correct indentation. Now changed.
Okay, you need to use the show screen instruction:

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label screen_example:
    "Im showing dialogue. Now to bring up the screen."
    show screen screen_example

screen screen_example:
    add example_inventory_picture
    textbutton "Inventory" xpos 0.5 ypos 0.5 action jump("inventory")

Look up textbuttons and imagebuttons. They are much much easier than imagemaps to use.

[trooper6]

Evildumdum's code is not properly indented and doesn't do exactly what you wanted.

You want a button that brings up a screen.

The button needs to be on a screen. That button's action will be to show a second screen.

This does what you want. But you should also study the screens already defined in your game's screens.rpy file--it'll give you a bunch of models of working screens.

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screen button_screen():
    frame:
        xalign 1.0
        yalign 0.0
        textbutton "Inventory" action If(renpy.get_screen("inv_screen"), Hide("inv_screen"), Show("inv_screen"))
        
screen inv_screen():
    frame:
        vbox:
            text "Inventory"
            text "-----"
            text "You have a shirt."

# The game starts here.
label start:
    show screen button_screen()
    "Click on the button to show your screen. Click on it again to hide it."
    "game over."
    
    return

[Bartulisica]

Thank you, both.
This is just what I needed, simple inventory I can have fun with!

If I can ask just one more thing..
How do I show inventory items inside it. For example:

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         $ items = []
         $ money = 0
         ##########
         screen inv_screen:
             frame:
                 vbox:
                      text "Inventory: "
                      text "You have %(items)d"

This isn't working right now, so what am I forgeting?