Vbox Style Properties-- how to control min. height? (solved)

[noeinan]

I have been using the MultiCharacter code here: http://vbkaisetsu.sky-air.net/wordpress ... %E3%82%8B/ in order to create a section of my game with two textboxes at once. (More also in this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=26505)

I have managed to make the two text boxes vertical (they are horizontal by default), but when they are vertical they don't stay a consistent size. If the top textbox has fewer lines, the bottom textbox jumps as well. (There is a set "spacing" between the top and bottom, but I would instead like to fix the top and bottom in place.) I have been playing around with the window style and haven't figured out how to fix this yet. :/

In the screens.rpy file, I changed hbox to vbox to get the desired effect:

Code: Select all

##############################################################################
# Multi
#
# Screen used for multi-mode dialogue.

screen multi:

    window:
        style "multi_window"

        has vbox:
            style "multi_vbox"

        # Display dialogue.
        for who, what, who_id, what_id, window_id in dialogue:
            window:
                id window_id

                has vbox:
                    spacing 10

                if who is not None:
                    text who id who_id

                text what id what_id

Now, in the 00multi_mode.rpy file, I have been trying to make changes with the multi_window and multi_vbox styles. So far, I've managed to get a textbox background for the boxes and control how high up on the screen the two text boxes display.

Code: Select all

##############################################################################
# The implementation of Multi mode lives below this line.

init -1500 python:

    # Styles that are used by multi mode.
    style.create('multi_window', 'say_window', 'the window containing multi-mode dialogue')
    style.create('multi_vbox', 'vbox', 'the vbox containing each box of multi-mode dialogue')
    style.create('multi_label', 'say_label', 'an multi-mode character\'s name')
    style.create('multi_dialogue_dual', 'say_dialogue', 'dual-mode character dialogue')
    style.create('multi_entry', 'default', 'a window containing each line of multi-mode dialogue')

    style.multi_window.yminimum = 400
    style.multi_window.xminimum = int(config.screen_width / 2) - 5
    style.multi_window.background = "gui/textbox.png"
    
    style.multi_vbox.box_spacing = 50

    # Set up dual mode styles.
    style.multi_dialogue_dual.minwidth = int(config.screen_width / 2) - 5
    style.multi_dialogue_dual.xmaximum = int(config.screen_width / 2) - 5

So then, I am guessing what I would need is some ability to control the minimum size of each vbox. For the text to fit inside the background images I've made, I'll need to standardize them. However, according to this documentation: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... Properties there is no yminimum property for box styles. (And when I tried to use it like that, it didn't work...)

Does anyone have any advice for how I would accomplish this?

[noeinan]

Or, I guess I could just try to change the code in screen.rpy to have two sections each with their own ypos... The way it is currently set up, it takes variables from elsewhere in the code though, and you could change this code to add more textboxes (for example, you could have three or four on screen.) I'll see if I can figure out a way to do this without breaking it. :/

[meiri]

Well, I'm certainly no code expert, and there's a possibility you've already tried this, but I would attempt changing

style.multi_window.yminimum = 400

to

style.multi_window.ymaximum = 400

Or if that doesn't work right, keeping yminimum and adding in the ymaximum?

I would test this myself, but I can't exactly replicate the image for the textbox.

Edit: Scratch out what's above-- I don't think it works, but I'm still taking a look at the code.

[noeinan]

Yeah, I was trying yminimum and ymaximum, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Right now I'm thinking I'll have to somehow permanently set there to be two windows with permanent positions. (As opposed to now, when you can add more if you want, and they position themselves based on the spacing between however many there are.

Haven't quite figured out how to make sure all the correct data goes where it's supposed to be, but if I can get it working I'll post it here. I don't understand most of this code either-- I just play around with things to see if I can find something that works, and look at documentation for ideas, haha. Sort of a scientific approach to coding rather than an actual programming approach.

If anyone wants to take a look, I've attached the whole project if anyone wants to take a look.

[akemicchi]

I got it to work using:

Code: Select all

    style.multi_entry.ymaximum = 100
    style.multi_entry.yfill = True

[noeinan]

Thanks! That's a lot easier than what I was trying to do, haha.