can multiple character's text appear simultaneously?

[zoranac]

I am wanting to have 2 character's text appear on screen at the same time, one at the top and one at the bottom. I only really need one to have a character name appear. I was wondering if there is a way Ren'py allows for this or not. Thanks for the help!

[nyaatrap]

I have a code to show 2 message boxes. If dialogue has "|", it splits into 2 and shows one on the left and the other on the right. It needs a bit of customization so the knowledge of the screen language is required.

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screen say:
        if not what.find("|") == -1:
            window:
                area (32,536,512,200)
                id "window"

                if who:
                    text who.split("|")[0] id "who" ypos -0.2
    
                text what.split("|")[0] id "what"
                
            window:
                area (640,536,512,200)
                id "window"

                if who:
                    text who.split("|")[1] id "who" ypos -0.2
    
                text what.split("|")[1] id "what"

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label start:
    "Char1|Char2" "hello|hi"

[zoranac]

Wow! I played with it a little and think I should be able to work with that, Thanks a bunch, this was a great help!

[xavimat]

Very interesting, nyaatrap, I'm going to use this also. Thanks!