Textbox Position

[darkfiete]

Is it possible to change the position of the Textbox and the displayed Text nearly over the whole screen
and leaving the Textbox transparent. I was thinking of the fate stay night textbox style.
Can anyone give me a hint how to do this?

[valeatory]

I think you can make the window transparent by uncommenting
style.window.background = Frame("frame.png", 12, 12)
and changing it to
style.window.background = Frame("#0000", 12, 12)
in your options.rpy

[Criptych]

Is it possible to change the position of the Textbox and the displayed Text nearly over the whole screen
and leaving the Textbox transparent. I was thinking of the fate stay night textbox style.
Can anyone give me a hint how to do this?

The short answer: use NVL mode. Of course, this fills the whole screen, so if you want the clear border a la Fate, you'll need to add a couple lines to an init section in your script:

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init:

    # ...

    $ style.nvl_window.xmargin=20
    $ style.nvl_window.ymargin=20

And adjust the 20s as you see fit.

[darkfiete]

Thank you for the fast answers, this was exactly what i was looking for! *kiss*
But one more thing. I want to adjust the Text itself to be more to the right. The Text normally starts at 1/4 of the screen leaving an empty quarter of the textbox.

[Scott]

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        style.nvl_window.xmargin = 26
        style.nvl_window.top_margin = 51
        style.nvl_window.bottom_margin = 61
        style.nvl_window.xpadding = 38
        style.nvl_window.ypadding = 15
        style.nvl_window.background = Frame("bgimages/frame.png", 748, 488)

That'll give you an FSN-style NVL box to the pixel, provided you have a frame image in bgimages/frame.png.

[Criptych]

The Text normally starts at 1/4 of the screen leaving an empty quarter of the textbox.

Sorry, I forgot about that; it's an artifact of using NVL mode with the default styles.

[Scott]

ypadding should actually be 26, indent should be 14 px. Line spacing should be 13 px.

[darkfiete]

ypadding should actually be 26, indent should be 14 px. Line spacing should be 13 px.

hm where to put the indent and line_spacing properties?
they have no effect if i use theme with style.nvl_window

[Scott]

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        style.default.first_indent = 14
        style.nvl_dialogue.line_spacing = 13