How do I make a button do something?

[namastaii]

How do I tell a button to do something specific? I've made screens and I've made buttons that can return to the last page/screen etc
but

I don't know how to have the button start a label or an action of my own?

This is ..what I have. I know it's wrong. Am I close though?

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screen action_screen:
    frame xalign 1.0 yalign 0.0:
        has vbox
        hbox:
            if "Candy Bar" in items:
                textbutton "Eat Candy Bar" action jump label eat_candy_bar
        vbox xalign 0.9 yalign 0.370:
            textbutton "Done" action Return()
            
            
label action_screen_label:
    call screen action_screen
    return
            
label eat_candy_bar:
    $ items.remove("Candy Bar")
    show screen intelligence_screen
    $ intelligence += 1
    hide screen intelligence_screen

I'm just trying to test it out so I can actually use it for real things in my game.
For example like in my code, I want to have an inventory of something. I have an action button and inventory button.
The inventory button just shows what I have. I wasn't sure how to make it so the text that is added to the inventory could actually be interactive so I just created an action button that will open up a list of buttons to interact with.
if the character has a candy bar in their inventory, it will show up and they can consume it and it is taken from their inventory and they gain points from it etc.

How would I go about making this work?
Or to just simply make the inventory list items be interactive instead so I don't need an action button?
Just have the person open their inventory and can click on the item and use it?

I've tried looking this up but I haven't had any luck.

Thank you!

[Alex]

Should help - http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_ac ... ol-actions

[namastaii]

Yeah, I looked at that page but it's not specific enough for what I'm trying to accomplish unfortunately.

[namastaii]

I've tried action jump("blah")
and tried action show("blah")
and it tells me theres no such thing as jump or show ? so ...idk

[namastaii]

I wish I could figure out a way to make the items list that appears in the inventory interactive.

Like..i Know $ items_list = textbutton(" ".join(items)) doesn't work. or $ items_list = textbutton " ".join(items)

There is no way to change the output of the items list? rather than just text but something clickable?

[octacon100]

So, with screen language, you have to be very careful about capital letters. Show() and Jump() will work, but show() and jump() will not.

Also, try looking at for in screen language: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#for

That should do something similar to what you want.

[namastaii]

I'll try that. It's just that lowercase jump works when I'm jumping from page to page so I assumed it was lowercase.

[namastaii]

Yeah...It's still not working

[namastaii]

Wait, I think I got it working.

[namastaii]

YESSS

Thank you

[namastaii]

Here's the working code:

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screen inv_screen:
    side "c b r":
        area (590, 10, 200, 200)
        viewport id "vp":
            draggable True
            mousewheel True
            vbox:
                
                text "{color=#ff6699}Money: $[money]{/color}" 
                text "{color=#ccccff}Inventory:{/color}"
                #
                for i in range(len(items)):
                    
                    if "Candy Bar" in items:
                        
                        textbutton "Candy Bar" action Jump("eat_candy_bar")
                    if "Rose" in items:
                        textbutton "Rose"
                
                null height 10
                null height 10
        bar value XScrollValue("vp")
        vbar value YScrollValue("vp")
    vbox xalign 0.9 yalign 0.370:
        textbutton "Done" action Return()
        
label inv_screen_label:
    call screen inv_screen
    return

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label eat_candy_bar:
    $ items.remove("Candy Bar")
    show screen intelligence_screen
    "You've eaten a Candy Bar."
    
    $ intelligence += 1
    hide screen intelligence_screen

[philat]

No offense, dude, but reading the documentation carefully and looking at the cookbook section would solve most of your problems.

Sample inventory system: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 51&t=23071

[namastaii]

No offense but I actually spent a good hour looking through all sorts of forum posts and cookbook/tutorial/documentation for this. and it's mostly just because I didn't capitalize the 'jump' action.