Temporary disable click-to-continue, how ?

[ihentai]

In "Reconstruction" starting intro/splashscreen have different befavior than the other game.
In game you use click-to-continue, in splashscreen you don't. When i think about it,
they probably directly call nessessary routines and not use standart
elena "hi!"
Buit the question is - can your control speed of messages(not text) using styles? When
i set things like style.XXXX.slow_cps, the text in message is printed with speed I set.
But after every message click-to-continue still used.... How to disable it/set speed of messages ?

[yummy]

You might use the pause function like this:

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Character "Hallelujah!"
$ renpy.pause(2.0)
Girl "..."

[ihentai]

I think renpy.pause() is not set a pause behavior, but simply wait timeout or click-to-continue
....

[ihentai]

Ok, i found in examples for renpy.pause() something that partially solve the problem. -
show function

Now I like to know figure out how to create a function in ren'py syntax ....

and how to make show use a character settings ... if it possible

[PyTom]

Usually, what you want to do in a splashscreen is to use a lot of "with" statements. The idea is that the user can click, and you want the clicking to skip him directly to the main menu. Something like:

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label splashscreen: 
     scene bg splashbg
     with dissolve

     show logo at truecenter
     with moveinright
     with Pause(2.0)

     hide logo
     with moveoutleft
 
     scene black
     with dissolve

     return

I'm not sure what you mean by:

"how to create a function in ren'py syntax"

or

"how to make show use a character settings"

What do you want to do?

[ihentai]

"how to create a function in ren'py syntax"

As you mentioned a splashscreen is a lot of "with" code. Sometimes it is
convenient to define a function and use something like

intro_text("That was a beginning ")
intro_text_type2("Beginning of a story ")
intro_text("about two people ")

with lots of with inside a function intro_text. I can done it defining a function in
python in init: statement. But that function will be in python syntax mode , correct ?

How Can I use a ren'py syntax in definition of python function. Something like

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def intro_func1():
           show logo at truecenter 
           with moveinright 
           with Pause(2.0) 

or

"how to make show use a character settings"

"show text" use a default style to output symbols. If I already defined a character : elena=Character()
with appropriate colors and styles, can I output text using "show text" with elena already defined settings

[PyTom]

No on the "show text" using a character style, athough you can call the character with interact=False to get the text box on the screen. For example:

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$ elena("Hello, World", interact=False)
with Pause(2.0)

You can't include Ren'Py code in a python function. You can use equivalent python functions (like renpy.show, renpy.with_statement, and so on.),

Alternatively, you can call a Ren'Py label:

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label intro_func1:
           show logo at truecenter
           with moveinright
           with Pause(2.0) 
           return

label splashscreen:
    call intro_func1
    return

[ihentai]

Thanks ! I figured out that a call/label can be used, but without a good way to send parameters. The temporary variable can be used but the resulting code will look a little
ugly. Like in my old BASIC on microcomputer(or how that things called) days.

[PyTom]

This is actually on the list of things I'll be addressing in the next release.

[ihentai]

This is actually on the list of things I'll be addressing in the next release.

Year, that would be great !

[monele]

Wow, I've never dared ask for this ...

[PyTom]

Well, this is one of those features where I think I've been seeing some demand for it, so I want to address that demand.

Currently, I plan at four things:

1) Dynamically scoped variables. These are variables that have their value restored when the current function call returns. For example, one could write:

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label func:
   dynamic a
   $ a = 42
   "%(a)d"
   return

label start:
    $ a = 37
   "%(a)d"
    call func
    "%(a)d"

This would say 37, 42, 37.

2) Add a syntax to labels that would let a label take parameters. These parameters would be dynamically scoped variables.

3) Add a syntax that allows call to supply parameters.

4) Add some way to have "return" return a value, and to have "call"
have a way of having call capture that result.

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call battle("Lemmaesque Mushroom", 2) as outcome

[monele]

And something like

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label func(param1, param2):

?

That would rock ^^ (and if all this works, "param2=value" would rock even more, of course X3)

[PyTom]

That's the plan, yes. The rocking is optional.

[monele]

The rocking is optional.

Let's give it a default value of True then?