having tooltips appear when hovering over button

[Nuxill]

I'm trying to make an effect similar to one on the main menu of Ristorante Amore, where a tooltip appears when the player hovers over a button. I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around the code though. Is it possible to have this kind of tooltip show up if you use an image button or text button, or is it something only imagemaps are capable of?

[SundownKid]

I have something like this that involves creating separate screens with the text, then setting the button action to show said screen when hovered, and hide when unhovered.

[Camille]

Buttons and hotspots both take hovered actions, so the code should still work. There's an actual tooltip function in Ren'Py, though, that might be easier to use than what I did.

[Nuxill]

I have something like this that involves creating separate screens with the text, then setting the button action to show said screen when hovered, and hide when unhovered.

I was thinking of doing something like this but a much more complicated version having to do with double the screens. I might try this

Buttons and hotspots both take hovered actions, so the code should still work. There's an actual tooltip function in Ren'Py, though, that might be easier to use than what I did.

I'm not able to get the hovered action to work with a textbutton... I think I'm doing something wrong. I'm guessing

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    textbutton "dog":
        hovered Show("button1.png", transition=dissolve)
        unhovered Hide("button1.png", transition=dissolve)

is not the way to do it.

Also I didn't even know about the tooltip function! Thank you! Is there a way to position the text and buttons in different areas? I know it says that more complex behavior is possible but off the top of my head I can't think of how I would code it. doesn't help that it's 4:30 am over here! I need to go to bed...

[Showsni]

You can use the usual commands to position the text and buttons anywhere you'd like. For instance, going off the example...

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screen tooltip_test:

    default tt = Tooltip("No button selected.")

    frame:
        xfill True
        xalign 0.0
        yalign 0.0

        has vbox

        textbutton "One.":
            action Return(1)
            hovered tt.Action("The loneliest number.")

        textbutton "Two.":
            action Return(2)
            hovered tt.Action("Is what it takes.")

        textbutton "Three.":
            action Return(3)
            hovered tt.Action("A crowd.")
    frame:
        vbox:
            xalign 0.7
            yalign 0.7
            text tt.value

That would let you move the frames containing the buttons and the text around seperately. You can of course set up your frames and windows and so on however you'd like.

The more complex actions it's referring to are when instead of using text tt.value you use some other command. The "tt.value" bit can be anything at all; the names of images, variables you want to update, etc. Then you can use any commands with it. Say you want a picture to flash up as a tooltip instead of some text, for instance.

[SundownKid]

Is it possible to make these tooltips appear with transitions?

[Nuxill]

Thank you very much Showsni! I'm also curious if it's possible to have the tooltips appear with transitions.