[Coding help] Issue with screens.rpy?

[riribelle]

So I was trying to launch my game and all of a sudden I got a weird traceback file:

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Full traceback:
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 281, in bootstrap
    renpy.main.main()
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 466, in main
    run(restart)
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 83, in run
    renpy.display.screen.prepare_screens()
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 827, in prepare_screens
    s.ast.prepare_screen()
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 345, in prepare_screen
    screen preferences():
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 345, in prepare
    screen preferences():
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 353, in prepare
    grid 3 1:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 353, in prepare
    grid 3 1:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 358, in prepare
    vbox:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 358, in prepare
    vbox:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 359, in prepare
    frame:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 359, in prepare
    frame:
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 361, in prepare
    has vbox
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 361, in prepare
    has vbox
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 364, in prepare
    textbutton _("Window") action Preference("display", "window")
  File "game/screens.rpy", line 364, in prepare
    textbutton _("Window") action Preference("display", "window")
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1472, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "<screen language>", line 364, in <module>
  File "renpy/common/00preferences.rpy", line 345, in Preference
    rv = get()
  File "renpy/common/00preferences.rpy", line 167, in get
    return __DisplayAction(1.0)
  File "renpy/common/00preferences.rpy", line 27, in __init__
    self.width = int(factor * config.screen_width)
  File "C:\Users\Cathy\Documents\renpy-6.99.1-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 766, in __call__
    raise Exception("Character expects its what argument to be a string, got %r." % (what,))
Exception: Character expects its what argument to be a string, got 1024.0.

The thing is, I haven't really messed with the screens file outside the two window variant, so I'm not really sure what all this code means outside "I don't want to run your game >BC". Um, help? ;___;

[trooper6]

Well, since you messed with the screens.rpy file, it would be useful for you to post the section of the code you messed with, inside of the code tags.

[riribelle]

See, that's the thing, I only did this:

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            # The two window variant.
        vbox:
            style "say_two_window_vbox"
            order_reverse True
            spacing -20
            
            

which is lines 32-36, and nowhere near the lines mentioned in the traceback....

[trooper6]

The traceback says there is a problem with the character's what argument.
could you post the whole say screen?
And maybe the character definition of the character that would be speaking if that might be a thing?

[riribelle]

What the heckie, renpy, I went back to my script.rpy file to rename one of my defined characters (which was "int" for intercom) and changed it to "inte" and somehow that fixed it????

I don't understand.....

But the whole code is

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# Say
#
# Screen that's used to display adv-mode dialogue.
# http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_special.html#say
screen say(who, what, side_image=None, two_window=True):

    # Decide if we want to use the one-window or two-window variant.
    if not two_window:

        # The one window variant.
        window:
            id "window"

            has vbox:
                style "say_vbox"

            if who:
                text who id "who"

            text what id "what"

    else:

        # The two window variant.
        vbox:
            style "say_two_window_vbox"
            order_reverse True
            spacing -20
            
            if who:
                window:
                    style "say_who_window"

                    text who:
                        id "who"

            window:
                id "window"

                has vbox:
                    style "say_vbox"

                text what id "what"

    # If there's a side image, display it above the text.
    if side_image:
        add side_image
    else:
        add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

    # Use the quick menu.
    use quick_menu

and the lines in question were

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define int = Character('Intercom', ctc="ctc_blink", ctc_position="fixed", show_two_window=True)

int "Last stop!" with hpunch

which apparently broke the game until I renamed them "inte"????

[trooper6]

What the heckie, renpy, I went back to my script.rpy file to rename one of my defined characters (which was "int" for intercom) and changed it to "inte" and somehow that fixed it????

I don't understand.....

That was your problem. You can't name a character "int."
int is a reserved word (it is short for integer)
You can look at the list of reserved words here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/reserved.html

You can't name your character list or int or input or tuple or class or any other word that is reserved to mean something specific. It makes computer languages unhappy and confused.

[VorrAkkagi]

Aannnd over 3 years later, you've solved my problem as well trooper6. Thanks!!! =) This has killed 2 days of dev time!