Keep namebox during trans btn dialogues with pause [Solved]

[Valiowk]

I'm using two_window for my game and have the following ATL code:

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X "Line of dialogue."

show xxx:
    linear 0.5 alpha 0.0
show yyy:
    alpha 0.0 xalign 1.0 yalign 1.0
    pause 0.5
    linear 0.5 alpha 0.5
pause 1

Y "Line of dialogue."

I can get the say_window to remain onscreen during "pause 1" using window auto, but the say_who_window will vanish during that time. Is there a way to get the say_who_window to remain onscreen during this time? It gets dizzy if the say_who_window keeps appearing and disappearing during every such transition.

To clarify, the intended effect is for the say_who_window to remain onscreen only between two lines of dialogue in which a name actually appears in the say_who_window, but it should vanish as normal when switching from named character to unnamed narrator and appear as normal when switching from unnamed narrator to named character.

[philat]

Y "{w=1.0}Line of dialogue."

instead of pause 1.0.

[Valiowk]

Y "{w=1.0}Line of dialogue."

instead of pause 1.0.

That would make Y's name appear even before X had completely dissolved out, which is rather awkward.

[philat]

What, you want a blank who window showing then? *shrug* Well, it's your game. Define a character with a blank name and use {w} then. Really not much of an effort difference between that and pause.

[Valiowk]

What, you want a blank who window showing then? *shrug* Well, it's your game. Define a character with a blank name and use {w} then. Really not much of an effort difference between that and pause.

Ideally I would like both X's name and dialogue to stay on the screen a little while longer during (at least the first half of) the duration of the pause, but I haven't found any code on the forum that would achieve that for now...

Edit: after playing with extend for a different purpose, figured out how to do it - replacing pause 1.0 with extend "{w=0.5}{nw}" would probably look best. D'oh!