Can you do investigation phases in Ren'Py? ~SOLVED~

[Broyi]

I've got this idea on my head for quite a while actually. I want to make some phases like the ''investigation'' sections of both Danganronpa and Phoenix Wright, in where you click an item on the image, in this case, background, a dialog appears explaining about the part of the thing the user clicked. I think this also applies to the investigations in Professor Layton games. Also, please, please, please note that I'm a newbie. I have just one sample game with dialog, transitions, menus, images and backgrounds, which is NVL combined with normal dialog so if you could please explain everything in detail and with some sample code or something. As I said earlier I just have experience with the things mencioned above.

Edit:
Let's say there is investigation mode and talk mode.
In Investigation mode the player hovers ''Item X'', and the yellow circle pops up like the menu (but not with the weird text nor the inventory). The user clicks the ''Item X'', the circle dissapears, manually I do a picture of the zoomed in ''Item X'' just to be lazy and not to work with ATL or something, characters appear, they speak they dialog (Talk Mode), and then the picture zooms out and the user go again to Investigation mode. Which one is the code I need? And, is there a tutorial about image buttons?

[meiri]

Might be worthwhile to check this out: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... it=+puzzle
That also includes an inventory, I believe.

[Broyi]

I don't get it... I'll just get this to explain:

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screen outside_room: 
   [b] [u]on "hide" action Hide("displayTextScreen")[/u][/b]
    if iFirewood not in inventory and not fireplace_wood:
        add "outside_wood.jpg"
[b]        [u]imagebutton:
            xpos 370
            ypos 462
            xanchor 0.5
            yanchor 0.5[/b]
            idle "empty.png"
            hover "yellow.png"
            action [Hide("displayTextScreen"),addItem(iFirewood)]
            hovered Show("displayTextScreen", displayText = "Someone left some wood here.") [/u]
            unhovered Hide("displayTextScreen")

My questions about this are:

1. What are image buttons? Is there a tutorial?
2. How do I make them?
3. And what is xpos, ypos, xanchor, yanchor, idle, hover, etc.?

Also, I should explain myself better...
Let's say there is investigation mode and talk mode.
In Investigation mode the player hovers ''Item X'', and the yellow circle pops up like the menu (but not with the weird text nor the inventory). The user clicks the ''Item X'', the circle dissapears, manually I do a picture of the zoomed in ''Item X'' just to be lazy and not to work with ATL or something, characters appear, they speak they dialog (Talk Mode), and then the picture zooms out and the user go again to Investigation mode. Which one is the code I need? And, is there a tutorial about image buttons?

[trooper6]

There is an Imagebutton tutorial here:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 51&t=22565

Check it out, play with it, see if it answers some of your questions or helps you form better questions, and then ask again!

[Broyi]

That tutorial solved my problems. Thank you!

[yon]

I actually thought about doing something like this recently (in the style of phoenix wright, rhythm thief, 999, games in general where you click on different areas of the screen to investigate further) and yeah, I think an imagemap or buttons would be useful in that aspect.

(Speaking of which, if you have any trouble with imagemaps, you could check out my recent threads on the topic. Might help out with any problems you encounter, since people managed to help solve all of mine so far)

[Milkymalk]

Don't forget "y;n", a game that features investigation and is actually done in Ren'py.
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25320