Hiding a screen with delay/timer.[Solved]

[xela]

What would be the best way to hide a screen 10 seconds after show or call (call preferably, to resume the code afterwards)? It has to be done from a python block so jumping to a different label is not an option (as rest of python code would not be executed). If possible, it should still be allowed to use a button to close it prematurely.

I've tried starting a new thread with a timer to run renpy.hide_screen() function, but for some reason, that did not work

[Tsapas]

Should be fairly easy with time.sleep.

in init block use

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init python:
    import time

and in python block

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        time.sleep(amount of seconds)  

and then whatever you use to hide the screen.

Just tried it in a renpy screen using python blocks and works flawlessly.

Or break the python block with renpy.pause and carry on afterwards, but haven't tried it myself.

[Alex]

Like this?

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screen test_scr:
    timer 5.0 action [Hide("test_scr"), Return("value")]
    textbutton "X" action [Hide("test_scr"), Return("value")] xalign 1.0 yalign 0.05
    
label start:
    "Line 1"
    python:
        renpy.say(None, "Line 2")
        a = renpy.call_screen("test_scr")
        renpy.say(None, "[a]")

[xela]

Should be fairly easy with time.sleep.

in init block use

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init python:
    import time

and in python block

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        time.sleep(amount of seconds)  

and then whatever you use to hide the screen.

Just tried it in a renpy screen using python blocks and works flawlessly.

Or break the python block with renpy.pause and carry on afterwards, but haven't tried it myself.

Thanks for trying but this solves non of my problems and you'd think if I knew how to create a new logical thread with it's own timer, I'd try this as well before posting a question here...

There should be a simple solution to this...

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Here is the simple solution:

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timer 5.0 action [Hide("screen")]

Yeap, that's exactly what I wanted, thank you

[jghibiki]

You might be able to do this using overlay screens. The following example would show "Hello" over you're in-game content for 5 seconds before making disappear

e.g.
init python:
import time
showScreen = False

def myOverlay():
if showScreen:
ui.text("Hello!")
ui.timer(5.0, ToggleVariable(showScreen)

label myLabel:
"Before showing text/starting counter"
$showScreen = True
"Stuff can still happen here"
"Eventually the timer will time out and the text will disappear."

[xela]

You might be able to do this using overlay screens. The following example would show "Hello" over you're in-game content for 5 seconds before making disappear

e.g.
init python:
import time
showScreen = False

def myOverlay():
if showScreen:
ui.text("Hello!")
ui.timer(5.0, ToggleVariable(showScreen)

label myLabel:
"Before showing text/starting counter"
$showScreen = True
"Stuff can still happen here"
"Eventually the timer will time out and the text will disappear."

That's once again, not what I've asked. You don't need to import time for RenPy's timers to work btw.

It's a complex screen with 200 lines of code and four different transforms running on it for a duration of 10 seconds. I should have looked into screen language for answer but I've seem to have developed a bad habit of looking for complicated answers in Python before checking in with RenPy (I did try several RenPy approaches as well, just never figured to look at the screen language erroneously thinking that I remember all of it...)

In any case, Alex's on screen timer solution works perfectly.

[Elementario]

Hi, so I know this is a old thread but I am really trying to look for a solution and can't find it anywhere,
So, I use a sort of achievement system to show a little pop up every now and then if a certain action is done.
The problem I have is that if the achievement pop up is still showing and someone rollsback, the timer breaks and never hides the given screen, any help?