Customizable Character name question

[Jinnai]

I have figured out how to have a character make their own charcter name through renpy.input, but I still want a default name. Unfotunatly I can't figure this out (all attempts i've tried fail).

I don't care if its either pressing [Enter] and leaving the name blank or having the name start with the default name and the player can backspace it...

[Alessio]

Defaulting to a name when the player presses ENTER is an easy one, here's the snippet from Go! Magical Boy:

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    $ player_name = renpy.input("What is your name, Magical Boy?") 

#   A little hommage to Seasons of Sakura:
    if player_name == "":
        $ player_name="Shuji"

[mikey]

But... we don't know that the default name is Shuji... I never even thought of pressing ENTER when asked for input.
It's like a little easter egg ^_^

[Alessio]

Yes, that was the idea. And there's one more easter egg in the name input section (but not worth searching for). :)

[PyTom]

It's probably best to do a

$ name = name.strip()

immediately after reading in a name. This strips off any whitespace surrounding the name. This will make the names "" and " " into the same thing, and will prevent layout problems if the user is overly generous with whitespace.

(Now I need to go reverse-engineer a recent release of G!MB.)

[Jinnai]

Thanks everyone.

[Alessio]

(Now I need to go reverse-engineer a recent release of G!MB.)

Nothing much to find there except a debugging menu with some practical jumping and variable-setting options... but the first one to guess which name you need to type in will get a cameo appearance in my next VN. :)

[Quin]

To address the original question, I personally used:

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$ name = renpy.input("Your name is...","Alex",length=12)

This puts Alex in as the default name, but the player can choose to backspace over it and use their own.

Thanks for the name.strip info, PyTom! I know that when I had my brother playtesting my game, he pressed the space bar at the name input screen before hitting Enter and ended up with the name "Alex " (with an extra space).

[Jinnai]

To address the original question, I personally used:

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$ name = renpy.input("Your name is...","Alex",length=12)

This puts Alex in as the default name, but the player can choose to backspace over it and use their own.

Thanks for the name.strip info, PyTom! I know that when I had my brother playtesting my game, he pressed the space bar at the name input screen before hitting Enter and ended up with the name "Alex " (with an extra space).

That might be better due to the game i'm making actually, though the if statement is always a good backup if someone leaves the name blank after backspacing.