A couple of screen-language related questions

[Samidarenina]

First off, I've got a button in the navigation that is supposed to turn on Auto Read.The problem is that I don't know which function to use. I've been doing random guesswork like "Auto_Forward()" and similar, but had no luck so far.

Second - is there a way to use ImageDissolve transitions when entering from the navigation to a specific menu?

Third - Is there a way to tell the game to stop skipping when entering the menu? The way it currently works is: you enter the navigation; you press skip; it brings you to the game; when you press rightclick you enter the menu, but the moment you leave it, the game continues skipping.
What I want is the game to recognize to stop skipping when you enter the menu.


Thank you very much for your time. I hope someone will be able to help.

P.S.
I already made a thread featuring another problem + these ones, but noticing that the problem was in the cache, I just deleted the topic before anyone had the chance to answer.

[PyTom]

It's best to break a thread like this up into multiple threads, one for each question. Also, please use a subject that reflects the questions you're asking - this one doesn't really help anyone. (This is a new policy that we're beginning to try to enforce.)

Anyway:

1) Use Preference("Auto-Forward", mode), where mode can be one of "enable", "disable", and "toggle".

2) Yes, in the screen do:

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screen whatever:
    on "show" action With(my_imagedissolve)
    on "replace" action With(my_imagedissolve)

3) I'll look into this.

[Samidarenina]

1) Ah, excuse me, I've expressed myself the wrong way. I meant that when you click the button, you leave the menu and the game starts auto_reading (similar to Skip() ). Is there any way to set that up?

2) I tried using it as

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screen navigation:
    on "show" action With(menu_blinds)
    on "replace" action With(menu_blinds)

but it does absolutely nothing. The screen just opens up the way it always does.
3) Thank you. Until now, it always happens to me that I use skip and enter the menu. And when exiting it, I expect skip to be off just for it to continue skipping. Not really such a big problem, but it felt really awkward to me.

[Samidarenina]

I suppose I shouldn't start designing the actual menu with the auto rea and skip buttons then?
It's a shame, but it seems I'll have to throw them out.

[DragoonHP]

1) Ah, excuse me, I've expressed myself the wrong way. I meant that when you click the button, you leave the menu and the game starts auto_reading (similar to Skip() ). Is there any way to set that up?

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            frame:
                style_group "pref"
                has vbox

                textbutton _("Auto Read") action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")

but it does absolutely nothing. The screen just opens up the way it always does.

I used dissolve and it works for me.

What I want is the game to recognize to stop skipping when you enter the menu.

Try putting

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if config.skipping:
    $ config.skipping = False

under the navigation screen. It might or might not work

[Samidarenina]

1) Again, this turns the navigation button into just a toggle which is not the desired behavior.

3) It just causes skipping not to work at all

Thanks for the try though.

[DragoonHP]

1) Do you want different buttons for enable and disable? Then you just have to edit the toggle and put in enable and disable.

3) Okay, tested it and this one works.

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$_game_menu_screen = "stop_skip"

^ Put this in the start label.

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label stop_skip:
    if config.skipping:
        $ config.skipping = False
    jump save_screen
    return

Not a eloquent solution,. but this one works quite well.

[Samidarenina]

1) I originally just wanted to make auto-forrward behave similary to Skip (where you click the button, then automatically get led to the game where it keeps auto-reading.), but I'm starting to get under the impression that I did something to make Auto-Forward not work. Even when it's enabled, it does absolutely nothing. Weird.
3) You really deserve a cookie for this solution - it's really one of those "why didn't I think of this myself?" things.

Edit: I just tried to turn on Auto-Forward in the Tutorial game and the text just stands still. Is there anything specific I have to do to make Auto-Read work or did I mess something up? Surprisingly enough, I cannot find any real info on the auto read function in the documentation.

[DragoonHP]

1) You can always group together actions

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 action [Preference("auto-forward", "toggle"), Return()]

This might be just a silly thought, but have you waited long enough?
If your auto-read value is set at low, it can take a little while (mine is set at max and I read the sentence four-five times before it stepped to the nest one)

[Samidarenina]

In fact, that was exactly what I had in mind. Then I just planned to do exactly that what you did with Skip to turn auto-forward off. (I'd just have to think of a way to make an auto-forward indicator, but that's a story for another time.)

In the tutorial, I've waited for over a minute after turning on "auto" in the quickbar and nothing happened. Weird.
Come to think of, Auto-Forward was one of those RenPy features I was never able to turn on.

Edit: I've just discovered that the game definitely goes into "auto-forward" mode because if I click, it exits it. The problem still remains that even though it's in auto-forward mode, there is no auto-forwarding going on.
I've been playing around with config.default_afm_time a bit, setting the value both higher and lower, but it didn't help at all.

[DragoonHP]

Err... make a new test build and then max out the Auto-forward time bar in preference.
And then wait and pray.

If it doesn't work, well, can't help you then.

And, here's how you'll put a Auto-Forward indicator

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if _preferences.afm_enable:
    # your image code

EDIT: 500th post

[Samidarenina]

Alright, so I did try making a new test build and then set the time to really low. And it worked.
I do the same thing in my project - nothing.
Could it be something NVL-related? Because that's the only thing that comes to mind.

Scratch that, I've cleared the persistent data and now it works. How silly of me. :'D

Thank you a lot, DragoonHP. You really saved me here


Now, excuse me for bugging you about something one last time, but I was hoping you may be able to help with the following. I've already mentioned that I'd like the auto-forward to get turned off when entering the menu, too. Now, I tried to accomplish that with

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if config.afm_enable:
        $ config.afm_enable = False

because I wasn't sure about the right function. Obviously, it didn't work.
Any suggestions on this?

[DragoonHP]

It's not a config variable.

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if _preferences.afm_enable:
    _preferences.afm_enable = False

^ This should work,

[Samidarenina]

I'm getting an "expected statement" error with that one.
And when changing it to "$ _preferences.afm_enable = False", then it does nothing at all.

[DragoonHP]

I forgot the $ sign; sorry.
And just tested it and it works for me.

Where are you putting it?