Text tags in a variable?

[Joey]

People have been expressing their dislike for the fact that I use text tags like "{w=0.1}" after punctuation marks in the game I'm making so I've been trying to figure out a way to turn that on/off. (I personally like it though because it gives the illusion that the character is speaking... but it's a personal preference.)

So I was thinking that I could use a variable in place of punctuation marks and have the player set their preference for pausing on/off by themselves, like so:

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$ com = ','

    if pausing == True:
        $ com == ',{w=1.0}' #not using 1.0 of course i just wanted to see the result clearly
        
    y "Hi[com] how are you today?"       
    a "Fine[com] thank you!"

(probably not the most efficient way to go about it but ;;)

But when I tested it it seems like the text tag is ignored completely? On/off yields the same result, a comma but no pause. Any way I can get around this/is there a different method to do the same thing?

[Alex]

This works for me - check if "pausing" set to "True" in your script.
Pretty much the same way of doing this

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    $ x = 4
    "Text,{w=[x]} some more text."

[Joey]

Oh, never thought of doing it that way! Thanks so much!

EDIT: ACK! no! It doesn't work because {w=0.0} still causes a pause. I want to remove it (the {w=xx}) entirely ;-;

[Another]

EDIT: ACK! no! It doesn't work because {w=0.0} still causes a pause.

It should work though. I noticed a minor typo in your first post that may cause this, if it's still present in your current code:

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$ com == ',{w=1.0}' # only one equals sign is needed here

Here's an example I've tested. In your preferences screen, add somewhere:

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frame:
    style_group "pref"
    has vbox

    label "Pausing"
    textbutton "Yes" action SetField(persistent, "com", 1.0)
    textbutton "No" action SetField(persistent, "com", 0.0)

Then, your script will look like this:

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init:
    $ if persistent.com!=0.0: persistent.com=1.0

label start:
    y "Hi,{w=[persistent.com]} how are you today?"
    a "Fine,{w=[persistent.com]} thank you!"

[Joey]

Whoops yes it does work, I was working on a netbook and the graphics were cocking up. Thanks so much!