Floating Text?

[jackalope044]

Hey there, guys. I wanted to add floating text (I.E. Outside of the bottom text box, at various points on the screen) to my game, but I currently have no clue how I'd do something like this. I managed to get text that was completely centered on the screen, but I want to figure out how to put it at all places on the screen.

[Camille]

You'd have to make a screen with text on it.

[jackalope044]

Well, I tried something here:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40
    xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3

And got this:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 20: Expected a screen language statement.
    xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3
        ^

[Another]

There are two ways to do this.

Either you write everything on the same line:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3

or you add a colon and indent:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!":
        size 40
        xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3

[jackalope044]

There are two ways to do this.

Either you write everything on the same line:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3

or you add a colon and indent:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!":
        size 40
        xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3

Wow, that was simple enough. I feel stupid now.

Thank you very much either way, though.

As for another question; Is there a way to give a border to the text? Like, white text with a black border? Just so that it doesn't blend in with my background and is actually readable?

[Camille]

That would be outline, and yes you can. Just add text style properties next to (or under, depends on which system you're using) your xpos and ypos stuff.

[jackalope044]

That would be outline, and yes you can. Just add text style properties next to (or under, depends on which system you're using) your xpos and ypos stuff.

The code I'm using:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines (20, color("#000000"), 0, 0)

The error I'm getting:

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 File "game/script.rpy", line 352, in script
        call screen tennisclub
  File "renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00statements.rpy", line 532, in python
  File "game/script.rpy", line 29, in python
        text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines (20, color("#000000"), 0, 0)
TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len()

Any clue? Also, thanks for all the help.

[PyTom]

Outlines takes a list. Write it as:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines [ (20, "#000", 0, 0) ]

[jackalope044]

Outlines takes a list. Write it as:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines [ (20, "#000", 0, 0) ]

Thanks!

It worked to display it, but the only problem is is that it doesn't allow the user to go past after the screen is displayed.

[Another]

The answer depends on the way you called your screen.

With show screen, you'll usually use hide screen:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines [(20, "#000", 0, 0)]

label start:
    me "What should I do?"
    show screen tennisclub
    ""
    hide screen tennisclub
    me "All right..."

But since show screen wouldn't prevent the player from continuing, I presume you used call screen. Here, things get a bit more complicated. Indeed, the screen is waiting for an interaction. You should thus add a button or a timer to your screen. Example:

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screen tennisclub:
    vbox xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3:
        text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 outlines [(20, "#000", 0, 0)]
        textbutton "Ok" action Jump("continue")

label start:
    me "What should I do?"
    call screen tennisclub

label continue:
    me "All right..."

[jackalope044]

The answer depends on the way you called your screen.

With show screen, you'll usually use hide screen:

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screen tennisclub:
    text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3 outlines [(20, "#000", 0, 0)]

label start:
    me "What should I do?"
    show screen tennisclub
    ""
    hide screen tennisclub
    me "All right..."

But since show screen wouldn't prevent the player from continuing, I presume you used call screen. Here, things get a bit more complicated. Indeed, the screen is waiting for an interaction. You should thus add a button or a timer to your screen. Example:

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screen tennisclub:
    vbox xpos 0.3 ypos 0.3:
        text "Please join the tennis club!" size 40 outlines [(20, "#000", 0, 0)]
        textbutton "Ok" action Jump("continue")

label start:
    me "What should I do?"
    call screen tennisclub

label continue:
    me "All right..."

Ahh, yes, using "Show Screen" as opposed to "Call Screen" made it work perfectly fine.

Thanks very much!

[Soraminako]

Sorry to jump into the conversation, but is there a way to use the outline around the text when using text in an ui?

I'm using the love measuring bars but they're extremely hard to see against some of my backgrounds.

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        ui.text("{font=font02.ttf}Bob's love for you:{/font} ")
        ui.bar(Bob_max, Bob_points)
        ui.text("Larry's love for you: ")
        ui.bar(Larry_max, Larry_points)
        ui.close() # for the vbox

I found in another thread how to replace the bar with images, but I'm stupidly getting stuck on the text with the names being invisible against many of my backgrounds.

So I'll have to either replace that by an image (aaargghh!! yet more images to make!!) or figure out how to make the outline code work within the ui thing.

[PyTom]

Yes. You can do:

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init python:
    style.default.outlines = [ (1, "#000", 0, 0) ]

And then remove it from other places.

[Soraminako]

Thank you PyTom!!

And not for another epic noob moment, but... how do you remove that style from the other places? ^^;;;

[PyTom]

Which places do you want it in, and which not?