Capitalization Always On Text

[Obscura]

If I want to use the capitalized/upper-case version of a font, is there a way to do that in Renpy?

For example, if I have this bit of code:

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$ timestamp = Character (None,
        what_font="fonts/specialfont.ttf",
        what_size=50,
        what_xalign=0.5,
        window_xalign=0.5,
        window_yalign=0.60,
        )

Every time I want the day of a week to show up on the center of the screen (i.e., Saturday), I use:

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timestamp ("SATURDAY")

The goal: I'd like the screen to show "SATURDAY" regardless of whether I used timestamp ("Saturday") or timestamp ("SATURDAY").

The reason for this convoluted question? I switch around fonts fairly often, and I'd like to be able to use caps automatically for certain fonts when I need to do so, instead of changing every instance of timestamp in .rpy.

Thanks for any assistance!

[Crazy Li]

Maybe timestamp.upper() ?

[Obscura]

Hmmm. I tried putting that in, and got:

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While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 850, in script
AttributeError: 'ADVCharacter' object has no attribute 'upper'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "C:\Program Files\renpy-6.15.7-sdk\renpy\execution.py", line 288, in run
    node.execute()
  File "C:\Program Files\renpy-6.15.7-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 433, in execute
    who = renpy.python.py_eval(self.who)
  File "C:\Program Files\renpy-6.15.7-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1331, in py_eval
    return eval(py_compile(source, 'eval'), globals, locals)
  File "<none>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'ADVCharacter' object has no attribute 'upper'

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.15.7.374

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

[Unin]

This is a rather inelegant way of doing it, but if this issue is having it capitalize for certain fonts, couldn't you just make a copy of your fonts, suffix them specialfontCaps.ttf, and edit the font file so that both cases use the capital lettering?


Edit: as for upper(), timestamp is a character, while upper() is a function for strings. depending on how characters hand strings, you could make a function within character to take an input string and output thatstring.upper()
maybe see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3524 ... e-a-string

[nyaatrap]

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screen say:
  text what.upper()

An object "what" is string, so you can manipulate it like the above.
You can't use text tags when you do this bacause {w} becomes {W}, e.t.c.