[Solved] Textbuttons and Choices.

[Dizzydude]

Hi, I'm trying to make a gender choice in my game using UI textbuttons, but it keeps returning as female. This is the code:

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$ ui.window()
    $ ui.hbox()
    $ ui.text ("What is your gender?")

    $ ui.textbutton("Male", clicked=ui.returns("1"))
    $ ui.textbutton("Female", clicked=ui.returns("2"))

    $ ui.close()
    $ gender = ui.interact(suppress_overlay=True)

    $ p = renpy.input("What is your name?")
    $ p = p.strip()
    if p == "":
        if gender == 1:
            $ p = "Owen"
        else:
            $ p = "Ella"

        
    if gender == 1:
        $ p1 = "he"
        $ p2 = "him"
        $ p3 = "his"
        $ p1c = "He"
        $ p2c = "Him"
        $ p3c = "His"
        
    else:
        $ p1 = "she"
        $ p2 = "her"
        $ p3 = "hers"
        $ p1c = "She"
        $ p2c = "Her"
        $ p3c = "Hers"

For some reason, when I try the test:

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    d "[p] playername test"
    d "[p1] [p2] [p3] pronoun test"
    d "[p1c] [p2c] [p3c] capital pronoun test"

It keeps returning as "Ella". Any help would be appreciated as to what I'm doing wrong.


EDIT: ..Yeah. Figured out the problem.

[trooper6]

Why are you using the older UI system rather than screen language? What advantage are you getting from the older system? I ask not as a challenge, but because I'm interested.

[Dizzydude]

Er.. new what now? I just use this one because I know about it. What's the new one? The hbox & vbox stuff? I'm just not sure how to use that.

I also wanted the gender choice to show up in the same place that the name choice showed up, and the UI stuff is in the textbox. Unless there's a way I can put renpy.input in the same place a vbox appears?

[trooper6]

Screen Language is the modern way of doing all of this...and has been for a while I'm pretty sure.

It is documented here:
http://renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

This is my screen language translation of your code:

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screen start_choice():
    frame:
        vbox:
            text "What is your gender?"
            hbox:
                textbutton "Male" action SetVariable("gender", "Male")
                textbutton "Female" action SetVariable("gender", "Female")
            text "Gender: [gender]"
            text "-----"
            text "What is your name?"
            input

# The game starts here.
label start:
    $gender = "Female"
    $name = "Ella"
    
    call screen start_choice()
    
    $name = _return
    
    $name = name.strip()
    if name == "":
        if gender == "Male":
            $name = "Owen"
        else:
            $name = "Ella"
    
    if gender == "Male":
        $he = "he"
        $him = "him"
        $his = "his"
        $He = "He"
        $Him = "Him"
        $His = "His"
    else:
        $he = "she"
        $him = "her"
        $his = "hers"
        $He = "She"
        $Him = "Her"  
        $His = "Hers"
    
    e "[name] playername test"
    e "[gender] gender test"
    e "[he] [him] [his] pronoun test"
    e "[He] [Him] [His] capital pronoun test"

I'm no expert in screen language, that is just what I came up with by looking through the documentation.
If you want the buttons and the questions not to show up in a frame, but in what looks like the say window, replace "frame" with "window"