Hotbars working sluggishly in 6.15 [SOLVED]

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At some point after upgrading from 6.14 to 6.15, the hotbars would respond slowly. Instead of following the mouse cursor as I drag the slider, it'll only treat my input as a single click, and sometimes fails to respond at all. Is there a quick fix for this?

Attached is an example, taken directly from my KN. Just click Preferences to see the menu.

[Donmai]

Weird! The 'sound/music' volume bars allow clicking and dragging, but the 'text speed' and 'auto-forward delay' only allow clicking to set the values. I've noticed the same behaviour in 'Ristorante Amore' and the 'True memories' demo. Curiously, in my own projects, all bars allow clicking and dragging (Ren'Py 6.15.7.374).

[Elmiwisa]

Try this screens.rpy I just modified from yours. This is a simple but somewhat ugly way of fixing it.

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I've noticed the same behaviour in 'Ristorante Amore' and the 'True memories' demo. Curiously, in my own projects, all bars allow clicking and dragging (Ren'Py 6.15.7.374).

How odd, if you plug my code into Ren'py 6.14 it works fine. And Ristorante Amore was a while back. I wonder if this is an issue that was addressed (maybe by accident) at one point but then came back later?

But, that fix works nicely. Thanks Elmiwisa!

[Donmai]

And Ristorante Amore was a while back.

Oops! That wasn't 'Ristorante Amore' itself, only the interface customization code Camille made public. In both examples I was running the code from the launcher, so it appear to be really a 6.15 issue. Sorry for the confusion.

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And Ristorante Amore was a while back.

Oops! That wasn't 'Ristorante Amore' itself, only the interface customization code Camille made public. In both examples I was running the code from the launcher, so it appear to be really a 6.15 issue. Sorry for the confusion.

Ah, that makes sense. So out of curiosity, in your projects are you using imagemaps and hotbars for the preferences, or something else? I've been starting to think it's an issue specific to one of those things, since the code-generated bars of the Ren'py tutorial still seem to work fine.

[Donmai]

Usually I don't customize the preferences screen.

[Elmiwisa]

It took me several hours, but I finally found the real problem
This is a different, and much better way, to fix the problem than what I have above.

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Previously, I were unable to fix the problem, so what I basically did was removing a feature that you don't use anyway, because that feature interfere with the hotbar. Took quite a bit of code that is sprinkled in various location, and might cause trouble later if you decide to use that feature.

This one involve simply adding 2 extra lines of code to the top of your original file, and fix the problem without having to remove that feature.

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It's an elegant solution, indeed. Maybe you can suggest it as a fix for future versions of Ren'py? (That is, if you think the root of the issue is the engine itself. That's just my hunch from what I've seen)

And thanks again! I'll consider this one solved.

[Elmiwisa]

Yeah I would consider it to be the engine's problem, considering that the fix is basically just redefine a renpy function so that it would work with the correct settings.
I guess I would make a thread in the Development forum then. Also, I finally boil down the fix to even simpler, which I would post there.
EDIT: the other thread is here