pop-up text boxes in Renpy

[kuroi]

Hello everyone!
It seems that I've run into a bit of a quandary in the programming of my game. There are certain elements of the game where I would like to have a text box pop up if the user holds the mouse over a button for a certain amount of time. Unfortunately, I am having trouble figuring out if there is already a way in the Renpy engine to make a pop-up text box appear. Does anyone know if this can be easily done or will I have to code something from scratch?

[monele]

I'm pretty sure you'll have to code it from scratch using the UI functions... but... even then I don't know if it's possible.

[PyTom]

Time-delay stuff really isn't supported in Ren'Py yet. This is something I'll probably try to address in the next release, since I want to use it for dictionary-mode.

[kuroi]

Thanks PyTom! I'll work on coding it too. If I get it done before you, I'll send it off to you and you can see if you want to just include my code.

[Glikka]

Hello!
I wondered if anyone has found a solution or workaround to this problem. I'm making a game based on an older story (early 1900s) and would like to have definitions for less common words pop up if players roll over the words in question.

[SundownKid]

I guess maybe you could show a hidden screen with a timer "on hover" and have that screen show the next one once the timer reaches 0.

[Showsni]

Hello!
I wondered if anyone has found a solution or workaround to this problem. I'm making a game based on an older story (early 1900s) and would like to have definitions for less common words pop up if players roll over the words in question.

Nowadays Ren'Py has Tooltip capability, here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_ac ... l#tooltips which you could probably use.

[Donmai]

Glikka, you can also use hyperlinks to create footnotes explaining the meaning of those less common words. I've created a KN based on an ancient japanese folk tale: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 95#p273895

You just have to define a hyperlink when a word needs to have its meaning better explained:

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lady "I have none,' she said. 'I can only promise to be a good and faithful wife, and tell you that I love you with all my heart and soul. Call me, then, {a=define_Higo}'Higo'{/a}, and I will be your wife."

In this case, the name of the girl, Higo, will be turned into a hyperlink that points to a label called 'define_Higo'.

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label define_Higo:
    Definition "{b}Higo{/b}:\nMeaning goithe or willow."
    return

Hope you can find it useful.

Edit: Oops! Forgot to tell you that 'Definition' is a character defined previously on the init block. For this game I've declared two characters for the footnotes:

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    define Definition = Character('Definition', color="#f00")
    define Translation = Character('Translation', color="#f00")

[Glikka]

This works like a charm, thank you! Do you know how I might change the hyperlink into a different color (maybe even get it to not be underlined)? It's a bit jarring on the text box background I currently have, but the functionality is exactly what I'm looking for.

[Donmai]

I have to say this is something I've never tried, but you can try changing the hyperlink styles to make it match your text box: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=24776
It seems you can change the color and remove the underline. Good luck!