Several questions about GUI coding

[clua]

I can't manage to get this right, please help!

I made an extra screen using this and this, and I got:

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# Extra Screen

screen extras:

    tag menu

    imagemap:   
        ground "menu/extra_idle.png"
        idle "menu/extra_idle.png"
        hover "menu/extra_hover.png"
        
        hotspot (309, 133, 109, 454) action ShowMenu("extradress") activate_sound "sfx/decide15.wav"
        hotspot (420, 133, 109, 454) action ShowMenu("extrapet") activate_sound "sfx/decide15.wav"
        hotspot (642, 133, 109, 454) action ShowMenu("extraloli") activate_sound "sfx/decide15.wav"
    imagemap:
            idle "menu/extramenu_idle.png"
            hover "menu/extramenu_hover.png"
            ground "menu/extramenu_idle.png"
            
                
            hotspot (14,610,158,77) action MainMenu()

Which worked perfectly but for some issues:

-The back button doesn't work for some reason I don't understand. It worked previously btw so I'm not sure if it's an issue of the imagemap...I'm attaching those just in case:

-When jumping to each scene from the extra screen, back, save, skip buttons from the quick menu doesn't work.

Other questions about my GUI would be:

-I'm using subtitles for my cg scenes so people can see the whole thing, but since the quick menu is in the same placement of the text box, I find it difficult to find a medium point where it can work for both. Is there a way to have a quick menu placement just for the textbox and other for the subtitles?


-When my characters think something I use this format:

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k"{i}{color=#8b707a}...A woman?{/color}{/i}"

Is there a way to format it once so I don't have to paste this every time I need it?(Not that bothers me much to
add this, but it's bothersome when it comes to edit the color of the format for each sentence)

Thank you.

[kitsalai]

I've never used those tutorials but is there a reason you're using 2 imagemaps instead of one? Unless you're planning to use the same imagemap on multiple screens, I feel that having 2 of them might cause problems with possible overlap.

The back button doesn't work for some reason I don't understand

When jumping to each scene from the extra screen, back, save, skip buttons from the quick menu doesn't work.

Can you show the code where the back button is defined and where quick_menu screen is defined? As long as the back button has action Return(), it should work.

Is there a way to have a quick menu placement just for the textbox and other for the subtitles?

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 29#p160572
Tom's way allows you to hide the quick menu by toggling the variable quick_menu. However if you want to change the placement, what you can do is cast the if statement to the xalign and yalign of the screen quick_menu.

Is there a way to format it once so I don't have to paste this every time I need it?

There is always a way to write less code =D When you define the character k, you can use
Character("Name", what_prefix="{i}{color=#8b707a}", what_suffix="{/color}{/i}")

[PyTom]

There was a bug in imagemaps fixed last night, so if you get a chance, try the nightly and see if that fixes the problem.