Predefined text positions

[nibl]

I need to freely place text anywhere on the screen. How can I define positions and use them for text like I do for images? e.g.

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$ mypos1 = Position(xpos=0.1, xanchor=0.1, ypos=0.1, yanchor=0.1)

"Hello world" at mypos1

I know I can use:

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$ ui.at(Position(xpos=0.2, xanchor=0.2, ypos=0.2, yanchor=0.2))
$ ui.text("Hello world")

but that makes the script less readable when the statements pile up.

I also read that Position is deprecated in favour of ATL, but can't find any simple example of how to position text anywhere on the screen.

Thanks.

[Asphodel]

Beware, untested code.

Have you tried something like this?:

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$ mypos1 = Position(xpos=0.1, xanchor=0.1, ypos=0.1, yanchor=0.1)
$ mypos2 = Position(xpos=0.2, xanchor=0.2, ypos=0.2, yanchor=0.2)
python:
  def textat(text, pos):
    ui.at(pos)
    ui.text(text)

$ textat("Hello", mypos1)
$ textat("World", mypos2)

[Colo]

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  def textat(text, pos):
    ui.at(pos)
    ui.text(text)

He does not want to use the ui code. I can understand his Problems with it, because it just pops up and does not take slow cps into account...

[chronoluminaire]

You probably want the ParameterizedText function.

That page has examples such as:

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init:
    image text1 = renpy.ParameterizedText(ypos=0.25)

show text "centered."
show text1 "1/4 of the way down the screen."

Note that you can also provide an "at clause" to the "show text" command just like you would when showing an image:

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init:
    $ topleft = Position(xpos=0.0, xanchor='left', ypos=0.0, yanchor='top')
show text "This is in the\ntop corner" at topleft

There's probably also a way to do this with ATL, but I don't understand ATL yet.

[number473]

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init:
    $ topleft = Position(xpos=0.0, xanchor='left', ypos=0.0, yanchor='top')
show text "This is in the\ntop corner" at topleft

There's probably also a way to do this with ATL, but I don't understand ATL yet.

If you wanted to use ATL here I think you would want something like this (untested):

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init:
    transform topleft:
        xalign = 0.0, yalign = 0.0

show text "This is in the\ntop corner" at topleft

## If you wanted to do it without using a transform
show text "This is in the\ntop corner":
    xalign = 0.0, yalign = 0.0

[nibl]

Many Thanks, ParameterizedText() works best of all solutions so far.

The problem with UI functions is that I need pauses in between showing texts and UI always clears its previous text. Or is there a way to stop that? The only way I found was using layers, which just adds complexity.

My goal is to make the code easily readable and editable by a non-programmer. I probably was not clear enough on that in my initial question.

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init:
    $ topleft = Position(xpos=0.0, xanchor='left', ypos=0.0, yanchor='top')
show text "This is in the\ntop corner" at topleft

If I use the default show text function together with Position(), how do I set a created style?
(Created with style.create)

[duanemoody]

All of this is nifty, but how do I center text inside dialogue (i.e. define a paragraph as horizontally centered text)? The examples I've found in this forum don't work for me.