Indentation issue with menu choices.

[dannythewaiter]

I'm rather new at writing code like this so i'm sorry if this is something blatant and obvious.

When I try to launch the game to test it, i get this message:
File "game/script.rpy", line 47: expected menuitem
(a red arrow)jump choice1_yes

Here is the code for that section.

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menu:
        "Say nothing."
        jump choice1_yes
        
        "Tell her off."
        jump choice1_no
        
        label choice1_yes:
            
            $ menu_flag = True
            
            e "This always happens, Seph..."
            
            jump choice1_done
            
            label choice1_no:
            
            $ menu_flag = False
            
            y "Get out of my face, Elena. You don't understand."
            
            jump choice1_done
            
            label choice1_done:

thank you for your help!

[Aleema]

This is how your code is supposed to look (I added a few things for reference):

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label ???:
    menu:
        "Say nothing.":
            jump choice1_yes
        
        "Tell her off.":
            jump choice1_no

label choice1_yes:
    
    $ menu_flag = True
    
    e "This always happens, Seph..."
    
    jump choice1_done
    
label choice1_no:
    
    $ menu_flag = False
    
    y "Get out of my face, Elena. You don't understand."
    
    jump choice1_done
    
label choice1_done:
    ""

For one, you did not have a colon (:) after you menu items. Next, you needed to indent what happens after each menu item over once. Lastly, I fixed the indentation for the subsequent labels.

Also, what you have there doesn't even need multiple labels. Look:

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label ???:
    menu:
        "Say nothing.":
            $ menu_flag = True
            e "This always happens, Seph..."

        "Tell her off.":
            $ menu_flag = False
            y "Get out of my face, Elena. You don't understand."

    ""
    if menu_flag:
        "Flagged"
    ""

But the other way still works.

[dannythewaiter]

Ahh, thank you so much! Everything works now.

just to clarify, how many spaces is an indent? and thank you again. seriously I was pulling my hair out.

[Aleema]

Four spaces is an indent. Luckily, there should be a button on your keyboard called Tab. Just hit that, and it will space things for you automatically.

[LVUER]

But aren't we supposed to avoid TAB? Since it could screws your script in some editors.

[Aleema]

The tab character (what breaks the script) is not what happens when you press the Tab button. At least, not on my keyboard.

[LVUER]

Anyway, in general, TAB should be avoided. Except when you're working on a word document and you know you won't changing your word-editor. In programming, we should avoid TAB (at least that's what I and my co-workers always do).

[Aleema]

I have worked with the Tab key for all of my Ren'Py projects, in both the SciTE and jEdit editors. There have been no ramifications and the key has been nothing but helpful. (Shift+Tab, for instance, moves selections to the left instead of right.) I really can't think of how people would work without the Tab key. Am I missing something entirely?

[inahochama]

Kind of going ot here but i actually have trouble using the TAB key myself. Most of the time, it gives me troublesome errors for using it so I just stick to the good ol' spacebar.

[PyTom]

It depends on the editor you're using. The editors I've shipped with Ren'Py have been configured to use spaces for indentation, and to indent one step (four spaces) on tab. If you don't have your editor configured this way, it might insert a tab character, which is something Ren'Py doesn't like very much.