Animated Textbox with ATL? [solved]

[Starzie]

I'm finally at the point where I've been customizing the look of the game I've been writing on for a few weeks now. Unfortunately, I've hit a snag dealing with the syntax of what I'm trying to do. I want an animated textbox for my narration.

I already know you can change the text box using style.window.background. My question comes from wanting to use an ATL block to customize it even further and give it animation.

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style.window.background = Frame(frame1, 1, 1)

When I try to declare the animation in the script file, Renpy tells me frame1 is not defined. I then realized the options are initialized before my script files.

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image frame1:
    "test01.png"
    pause 0.5
    "test02.png"
    pause 0.5
    repeat

style.window.background = Frame(frame1, 1, 1)

So I dropped the code into the options file, which resulted in Renpy telling me the syntax is wrong. I then realized the options are in Python. So either, what would be the Python equivalent, or how can I initialize that ATL block before the options?

I have this awful feeling I'm missing something obvious, but I've just about tried everything I could think of. Thanks for the help in advance!

[Starzie]

So in my quest to try to answer my own question, I tried this:

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image frame1:
    "test01.png"
    pause 0.5
    "test02.png"
    pause 0.5
    repeat
    
python:
    style.window.background = Frame(frame1, 1, 1)

This is in my script file, with the option's style.window.background commented out. The game actually launched this time!

My newest problem is the image is now simply a black box instead of the animated one I was expecting. Any ideas?

[Mild Curry]

Er...try this:

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style.window.background = Frame(Animation("test01.png", 0.5, "test02.png", 0.5))

[Starzie]

Haha, yes that worked. Thank you so much!