Putting the menu on the left, or in the center, as needed

[EwanG]

I know how the style option is used to define the position of the main menu for the game.

In game, there are some menus I would like to have be on the left side of the screen (so I can have the map showing on the right), and others where I want it in the middle of the screen (typical choice behavior).

How do I specify, per menu (if that's even possible) if it's on the left, or in the center?

TIA,
Ewan

[PyTom]

You can't, short of using the ui functions to make your own menus. All of the menus created with menu: share the same style.

[PyTom]

Actually, there is a way do do this. You'd need to define your own menu function, which checks a variable (or something), and uses that to control where the menu winds up.

[Guest]

Actually, there is a way do do this. You'd need to define your own menu function, which checks a variable (or something), and uses that to control where the menu winds up.

Hello, I'm new to using Ren' Py, but I'd also like to be able to put a menu on the left or right hand side of the screen, so that I can display it next to the character speaking. This would let me offer conversation choices (so the player could choose to be 'tactful' or 'decisive' or 'funny' in certain situations.)

Having the menu just slapped over the character's face seems so rude!

I did have a look at the demo code for the menu with Eileen standing alongside, but Oh My! Too hard for me to grok at the moment. Is there a simpler way of doing that? (since my choices would either be a straightforward jump or just updating a variable in the player's profile.)

At the moment I've just set button menus to false in the config settings and it's okay, but I do pine for those cool buttons.

Thanks for all your hard work, it's a great system!

[Criptych]

You could try something like this:

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init:
    python:
        # add a choice button to the list
        def menu_choice(text,label):
            ui.textbutton(text,clicked=ui.jumps(label))
        
        # display a customized menu
        def custom_menu(choices, align=0.5):
            # choices is a list of tuples
            # align is 0.0, 0.5, 1.0 for left, center, right
            ui.vbox(xpos=(0.8*align+0.1),xanchor=align,ypos=0.5,yanchor=0.5)
            for c in choices:
                menu_choice(c[0],c[1])
            ui.close()
            ui.interact()

Then, in your script:

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    python hide:
        custom_menu( [
            ("I should go with her.", "go_with"),
            ("She'll be fine alone.", "stay_here"),
            ("I'll do it myself.", "go")
            ], 1.0) # right-aligned menu

label go_with:
    "I should go with her, it's dangerous."
    #...
    jump join

label stay_here:
    "I'll stay here; she'll be fine alone."
    #...
    jump join

label go:
    "It's a man's job to do the dirty work."
    #...
    jump join

label join:
    # keep going here

It's not as intuitive, and certainly not the best code (I'm kind of new to Python), but it seems to work. Hope it does for you.

If you're good with Python, some things to add might be:

• More position options
• Remember & highlight last choice (for rollback)
• Fix the weird button sizes (they're all different lengths)
• ... who knows?

[Guest]

Ah, thanks for that.

I'll save the code and and have a fiddle about, see if I can get it to work. The Python machinery is alas all greek to me, so if I get to the point where my wip might see the light of day then I'll come back here begging for prettification.

Much appreciated.

[Criptych]

I'm sure there's probably an easier way. I've been reading through the Ren'Py source (thank you so much, PyTom, for making it open source!), playing with the menu and menu_window styles-- if it works, that would only add a line or three to your code, instead of half a page! Unfortunately I haven't gotten very workable results yet. Keep your fingers crossed.