show(screen), screen not defined

[Lezalith]

Hey everyone,
I'm sorry, this is probably a stupid question. I'm trying to program a little thingy with getting away with using as little of code as possible. Variables are mostly what I need, and those are easy to manage in Ren'Py.

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screen study:
    tag mains
    imagemap:
        ground "Teaching.png"
        hotspot (110, 110, 100, 100) hovered Show(Desc) unhovered Hide(Desc) action SetVariable(morning, Skill1) 

This screen involves an image map. When hovered, I would like it to show an image OR text at x1 defined position. Since you cannot do Show(text "Ladida" at x1), I decided to make a screen called Desc and call it with the Show(Desc).

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screen Desc:
    add "skill1describ.png" at x1

I am using "add" because "show" is not valid child of "screen", and "image" cannot have specified position ("at" or "xalign"... are not valid children).
I would be okay with using "text", but that's not the issue.
The issue is, I get error message on line where the hotspot is, saying "name "Desc" is not defined."

It's probably me using the Show() wrong, I am a noob with programing and I failed to search for solutions so far, any ideas?

[philat]

Desc should be a string (=in quotation marks).

[Lezalith]

You mean like this?

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screen "Desc":
    add "skill1describ.png" at x1

That gives me "Expected 'word' not found".

[philat]

No, as an argument supplied to Show().

ETA: It sounds like you're looking for tooltips anyway. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_ac ... l#tooltips

[Lezalith]

Ah yes, I'm so dumb x)

And thanks for the tooltips, I missed those, will come in handy in the future!