Resetting a bar's value

[akemicchi]

So I want something like A Dark Room...
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

There's a button on screen. If the player clicks it, a bar appears and takes x amount of time to fill up. When the bar is full, something happens and the bar disappears.

I want multiple buttons on the screen. The player can click on multiple buttons. That means multiple bars showing up on the screen all getting filled at different rates. I figure the best way to do this is have a 'for' loop, use a class/list/dictionary/something to store all the data, and have it 'use' a screen only containing the bar. No problem. The problem I'm having with this is that once the player clicks the button, the bar (using AnimatedValue) remains filled.

How would I reset the bar so the value stored is 0 again?

I figured out I can get it to reset by showing and hiding the screen, but it looks really clunky and needs me to make multiples of the same screen. Not to mention I'll have to position it manually instead of having the bar nestled right next to button in an hbox...

What I have so far:

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screen baking():
    frame:
        align (0.05, 0.05)
        xpadding 10 ypadding 10
        xfill True yfill True
        xysize (150, 200)
        
        vbox:
            textbutton "Bread" action [Show("bread_bar", time=3, text="Baked Bread!", hide_screen="bread_bar")]
            textbutton "Cake" action [Show("cake_bar", time=10, text="Baked Cake!", hide_screen="cake_bar")]

screen bread_bar(time, text, hide_screen):
    use item_bar(time, text, hide_screen)

screen cake_bar(time, text, hide_screen):
    use item_bar(time, text, hide_screen)

screen item_bar(time, text, hide_screen):
    timer time action [ItemLog(text), Hide(hide_screen)]
    bar value AnimatedValue(200, 200, time, 0): # This here?
        xysize (200,25)
        thumb None

Anyone know a better way of doing this? I'd really appreciate the help! I'm also wondering if it's possible to have a bar that works like in A Dark Room? When the button is clicked, the bar appears behind the button and fills up there.

Thanks so much for your time! :)

[Shaples]

I don't have an answer for you, but I just wanted to let you know that I read your post and went "what's A Dark Room?" And clicked on your link and the next thing I knew it was 6 in the morning and I'd been clicking buttons for hours. So, thank you

[philat]

Can you post the code for how you were doing it before? I'm not sure exactly how you set it up and what you mean by the bar would stay full.

[akemicchi]

lol, Shaples... Glad you enjoyed playing it, though. It really is addicting!

I don't remember my code, but it went something along the lines of:

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    textbutton "Bread" action [SetVariable("bread_bar", True)]
    if bread_bar == True:
        bar value AnimatedValue(200, 200, 3, 0)
        timer 3 action [FunctionHere(), SetVariable("bread_bar", False)]
    else:
        null

After running once, the bar remains full when shown again. That's really as simply as I can put it. It doesn't reset to a value of 0 and animate to 200 after running once. It appears to store the new value.

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Left is an empty bar. Right is a full bar. It starts out empty then ends up full after a period of time.

[philat]

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python:
    Bread_bar = False
    Cake_bar = False
    Bread_time = 3
    Cake_time = 10

screen baking():
    frame:
        align (0.05, 0.05)
        xpadding 10 ypadding 10
        xfill True yfill True
        xysize (150, 200)
        
        vbox:
            textbutton "Bread" action [SensitiveIf(Bread_bar == False), ToggleVariable("Bread_bar", true_value=True, false_value=False), Function(renpy.restart_interaction)]
            if Bread_bar:
                timer 0.01 repeat True action If(Bread_time > 0, true=SetVariable('Bread_time', Bread_time - 0.01), false=[SetVariable("Bread_bar", False), SetVariable("Bread_time", 3)])
                bar value Bread_time range 3:
                    thumb None

Perhaps something like this? It's a bit more messy than using AnimatedValue, but it works. (I didn't bother inverting the thing, but you can invert it easily.)

General idea from http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=25114

[PyTom]

I'd suggest putting the bread bar on its own screen, and showing/hiding that screen.