How To Add renpy.input to Screen Instead of in Textbox?

[noeinan]

I have three user input fields in the character selection screen for my game.

Currently, the user is prompted in the text box, and once the three user input fields are filled, they arrive at the character creation screen.

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label char_select:
    
    "Now, select your beginning."
    
    $ player_firstname = renpy.input("Given Name")
    $ player_firstname = player_firstname.strip()

    if player_firstname == "":
        $ player_firstname="Derya"
        
    $ player_surname = renpy.input("Family Name")
    $ player_surname = player_surname.strip()
    
    if player_surname == "":
        $ player_surname="Emin"
        
    $ player_age = renpy.input("Age")
    $ player_age = player_age.strip()
    
    if player_age == "":
        $ player_age="30"
    
    "Select your beginning."
    
    show screen charselect
    $ renpy.pause()

I have attached an image of my character selection screen. The other variables are set with buttons, and depending on the gender and job of the character, the portrait changes.

My problem is, I would like to move the user input onto my character selection screen-- so that when they type, they type into the empty fields indicated by age, given name, and family name. I have looked at the following threads:

General information about ui.input:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... s/ui.input

Using ui.input in nvl mode:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=22636

Customize the text in ui.input:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=10865

Displaying ui.input in a screen:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=16354

But I can't figure out how to get it to work. This is the closest that I've gotten:

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    $ ui.input('', xpos 607, ypos 163)
    $ player_age = ui.interact("Age")
    $ player_age = player_age.strip()
    
    if player_age == "":
        $ player_age="30"

But even though this is basically copy/paste from the official documentation, I keep getting an "Invalid syntax" error.

If anyone knows how to fix this up, I'd greatly appreciate it!

[ArachneJericho]

Hello!

I made a project for you. When you click on a text field you get a dialogue prompting you for data, and then that text field is updated with the data. Text field is used loosely here; it's actually a text button so I can attach an action to it.

Check out both screens.rpy and script.rpy

[ArachneJericho]

Actually, those are dists. Oops.

Here is the project in a zip. sorry about that.

[noeinan]

Thanks for sharing.

I'm hoping there is a way to just click on the field, and then type right into it-- but if I can't find out how to do that I will probably use your code. My GUI adds a fair degree of detail, so I was worried with too many windows the screen would end up looking cluttered.