[Tutorial] Customizing Menus

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

It didnt work ;-;
it says

File "game/screens.rpy", line 182: expected a ketword argument, colon, or end of line.
style "mm_root" (arrow)= "Adventures_title_screen_1.png"

[Aleema]

Did you forget your comma at the end?

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

i added a comma and nothing happened o-o

[Aleema]

Copy/paste the line of code directly from your options.rpy file and not just the error. Right now, there's this "(arrow)" thing and I don't know if that's in the error or actually in the code. o_O But it's not supposed to be there.

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

oh that's the error XD here's the code

The background of the main menu.
window:
style "mm_root" = "Adventures_title_screen_1.png"

[Aleema]

Okay, now I'm confused. I think you're combining two approaches here on accident. What you want to do is go to your options.rpy, find the area of code that looks like this:

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        mm_root = "#dcebff",

And then make it look like this:

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        mm_root = "Adventures_title_screen_1.png",

That's it. All that window/style stuff is for something else entirely, namely your screens.rpy file.

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

okay, did that, launched, and got an entire screen of errors

[Aleema]

That code isn't wrong, so there's something wrong with how you pasted it. Something you'll learn about this coding language, and any language, is that it's fickle and requires specific spacing and placement and such. Also, it helps when you tell us what the error says exactly, too. Just telling me it doesn't work doesn't really help you.

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j33 ... errors.png

there it is ;-;

[Aleema]

Aww, lol ... you didn't have to make a screencap like that. ^^; Next time you can hit "open traceback" and it will open in the editor and you can copy/paste it here. Sorry!

All that code, and it says it simply can't find your file! Have you tried everything listed in this FAQ entry to see if you can fix it? It's just a basic checklist to make sure Ren'Py can find your file.

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

AHAHA! XD okay, one last annoying question (for now)
how do I make the music stop after navigating away from the title menu?

[Aleema]

It's supposed to stop on it's own, but for some reason that isn't always the case ... People fix it by simply saying "stop music" after the start label, like this:

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label start:
    stop music

You can add a fade if you want, too.

[xXimmaeatjooXx]

and thank you so much for helping the hopeless me!

[Variasaber]

A moderator or admin should sticky (is that what they call it here?) your tutorials, Aleema, they are fantastic.
I know finding them is just a matter of searching for "[Tutorial]", but not everyone knows that. Are you one of the higher-ups on the forum, or is it simply that you've been posting for several years and have lots of Ren'Py experience?

[Milkymalk]

I have a really hard time finding any tutorials or documentations on how to make entirely new screens instead of just modifying the style of existing ones. How to make buttons that you can select (instead of just click for a result), how to change the contents of text labels or buttons depending on variables (i.e. clicking on a button so it changes its text) etc.

Can you point me to such a ressource?