text box question

[Candle]

How do you do the test box like this one here
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1545
And how can you change the x and y position of the image on screen?

[DaFool]

If I remember correctly, that's called "Two-Say" style. Where the name comes in its own bubble. The Ren'Py tutorial should have a demonstration of that.

The actual window textbox can be a png image you edit yourself.

You can change X and Y position using at (coordinates) clause. Better check the Ren'Py tutorial for the exact syntax, as I'm going from vague memory recall here. But it is better to just standardize your images so that their vertical size is the same...that way you can just use

show image at left
show image at right

[Candle]

Was kind of looking for this but can't seem to find it anywhere.
A user can define their own positions, but that's outside of the scope of this quickstart.

[DaFool]

To answer first question...

Code snippets taken directly from the tutorial game.

Not exact, but getting close to the style:

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    # Two-window mode.
    $ etwo = Character('Eileen',
                       color="#c8ffc8",
                       show_two_window=True)

but you have to set this roundrect option as well (most probably in a separate options file)

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        theme.roundrect(

            ## If this is True, the in-game window is rounded. If False,
            ## the in-game window is square.
            rounded_window = True,

To answer second question, another code snippet from Eileen's tutorial game:

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    $ logopos = Position(xpos=.5, xanchor=0, ypos=50, yanchor=0)

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    show eileen happy at left
    with move
    show logo base at logopos

[Candle]

Thank you that helps a lot.
I tend to look at the help files and not the template games that come with the program.