Help with project: inputting Player Name and rerouting menus

[TempestuousInquiry]

So, long story short, I'm creating a simple game for a class project based on learning the ins and out of a culinary business.

I want to be able to have the player input a name for their character in the beginning. I downloaded the SoftKeyboard and placed the folder where it told me to, but I just keep getting:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 69, in script
call screen input_softkeyboard
Exception: Screen input_softkeyboard is not known.


-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\execution.py", line 261, in run
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\ast.py", line 1405, in execute
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\ast.py", line 1418, in call
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\statements.py", line 100, in call
File "common/00statements.rpy", line 540, in execute_call_screen
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\exports.py", line 1525, in call_screen
File "F:\****'s work\Project Files\RenPy\renpy\display\screen.py", line 446, in show_screen
Exception: Screen input_softkeyboard is not known.

I'm sure what this means, and have tried to fix it in many ways. If someone can help me fix it, or can tell me a simpler way for a player to input their own name into my game, please let me know ASAP.

My other question is in creating menus. If you have a menu with multiple choices, and you want all of them but one ("Continue") to reroute back to the start of the menu, how would you do this? (Note: I have multiple menus in my game, if this affects anything.)


I would like answers to these questions ASAP, if possible: This is for a school project, not on my own personal time. Thanks very much and I appreciate the help!

[MoPark]

Is the soft keyboard an absolute necessity? If not, you can just use the renpy.input() function instead. It's fairly simple to implement.

In terms of menus, do you mean something like this?

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label menu_start:
    menu:
        "Menu Question?"
        "Option 1":
            jump menu_start
        "Option 2":
            jump menu_start
        "Continue":
            jump menu_next

[DragoonHP]

2) You need to give your menu a name...

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menu Something:
    "Go up.":
        jump Something
    "Go down.":
        jump nextScreen
    "Go left.":
        jump Something
    "Go right.":
        jump Something

EDIT: Tried the SoftKeyboard framework and it works for me...
From what I can tell by looking at the error, Ren'Py can't find the screen...
Are you sure you have put both the folder... lang and softkeyboard in the game directory...

Here's the demo code...

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label start:
    "This is a demo."
    call screen input_softkeyboard
    "Thanks for that mate."

[TempestuousInquiry]

@MoPark: No, it's not really necessary, I just didn't know how to allow the player to type in their own name any other way. If you could show me how using the input, that would be great!

@DragoonHP: Thanks! That definitely worked, but... (see attachments)
Also, when I pull up the keyboard, everything there is in Japanese as well. I didn't mess with anything in the folders, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Can you help again?

Please pardon my slowness; I started using Ren'Py only about a week ago.
Thank you both for your help with the menu jumping. I really appreciate it!

[MoPark]

From the sounds of it, you don't really need the soft keyboard at all. renpy.input() is well-documented here:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... enpy.input

[TempestuousInquiry]

Great! Thanks again so much for the help! With any luck, I'll get a hang of this program soon. ^-^

[DragoonHP]

Okay... you must have chosen Japanese language...

Follow these steps:
--> Delete Persistent Data (From Ren'Py Launcher)
--> Start you game again...
--> Choose English as the language...
--> Finish...

[TempestuousInquiry]

Ah, thank you so much!
I thought I selected English, but I guess I must have clicked the wrong button.

Thanks again so much! This has been such an enormous help!! ^-^

[YaibaToKen]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how to use the softkeyboard as a means to define a variable such as a name, and store it...

thanks in advance