Call statement & arguement question[SOLVED]

[Baal7734]

Here's what I'm trying to do.

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label start:
    show expression Text("{color=ff1200}Wanna talk to Joe about fishing?", 
            size=50, 
            yalign=0.1,
            xalign=0.5, 
            drop_shadow=(2, 2)) as text
    menu:
        "yes":
            call Test(Joe, Fishing)
            return
        "no":
            hide text with dissolve
            show expression Text("{color=ff1200}TOO BAD!", 
            size=50, 
            yalign=0.1,
            xalign=0.5, 
            drop_shadow=(2, 2)) as text
            pause
            call Test(Joe, Fishing)
            return
    
label Test(namevariable, topicvariable):
    call namevariable_topicvariable        #<----------------I know this is wrong. Is there a way to do this though?
    "It really does."
    return
    
label Joe_Fishing(namevariable, topicvariable):
    hide text with dissolve
    "You don't know anybody named Joe and fishing sucks"
    return

[Roboduck]

I can't guarantee this will work as I have no way of testing it atm but I would try it this way:

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init python:
    def Test(namevar,topicvar):
       return (namevar+'_'+topicvar)
        
[...]
 
"no":
   [...]
   $newlabel = Test('joe','fishing')
   $renpy.call(newlabel)
    [...]

label joe_fishing:
    "Fishing sucks."
    return

[Onishion]

Can you call the result of a variable? I'm not sure. If not, then the only solution I could offer would be to call a long chain of if statements, if the variable is X, call Y, etc.

[Baal7734]

That's

I can't guarantee this will work as I have no way of testing it atm but I would try it this way:

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init python:
    def Test(namevar,topicvar):
       return (namevar+'_'+topicvar)
        
[...]
 
"no":
   [...]
   $newlabel = Test('joe','fishing')
   call newlabel
    [...]

label joe_fishing:
    "Fishing sucks."
    return

Did you mean ?

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$ newlabel=Test(namevar,topicvar)

Otherwise You're just setting a variable, and calling the variable as a label.
I want to make a call statement using only the arguments to populate the label it's calling.

[Roboduck]

Can you call the result of a variable? I'm not sure. If not, then the only solution I could offer would be to call a long chain of if statements, if the variable is X, call Y, etc.

It definitely works for renpy.call_in_new_context(label_variable)

But I just realized, it should be $renpy.call(newlabel) instead of just call newlabel, I'll edit my reply above.

Did you mean ?

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$ newlabel=Test(namevar,topicvar)

Sure, if you declare the variables at some point as strings, like

$namevar = 'joe'
$topicvar = 'fishing'

[xela]

Don't create new contexts without a good reason to. Try:

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label Test(namevariable, topicvariable):
    call expression namevariable + "_" + topicvariable
    "It really does."
    return
   
label Joe_Fishing:
    hide text with dissolve
    "You don't know anybody named Joe and fishing sucks"
    return

You normally want to name use lowercase letters for label names as a general guideline.

[Baal7734]

Don't create new contexts without a good reason to. Try:

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label Test(namevariable, topicvariable):
    call expression namevariable + "_" + topicvariable
    "It really does."
    return
   
label Joe_Fishing:
    hide text with dissolve
    "You don't know anybody named Joe and fishing sucks"
    return

You normally want to name use lowercase letters for label names as a general guideline.

Here's the traceback.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 72, in script call
    call Test(joe, fishing)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 85, in script
    label Test(namevariable, topicvariable):
  File "game/script.rpy", line 72, in <module>
    call expression namevariable + "_" + topicvariable
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'Person' and 'str'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 72, in script call
    call Test(joe, fishing)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 85, in script
    label Test(namevariable, topicvariable):
  File "C:\Users\godis\Desktop\renpy-6.99.7-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1311, in execute
    args, kwargs = self.arguments.evaluate()
  File "C:\Users\godis\Desktop\renpy-6.99.7-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 180, in evaluate
    args.append(renpy.python.py_eval(v, locals=scope))
  File "C:\Users\godis\Desktop\renpy-6.99.7-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1489, in py_eval
    return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
  File "C:\Users\godis\Desktop\renpy-6.99.7-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1484, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 72, in <module>
    call expression namevariable + "_" + topicvariable
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'Person' and 'str'

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.7.858
Ren'Py Tutorial 6.99 "Here's to the crazy ones."

[xela]

Do you assume that I'm psychic?

How do you know that an instance of "Person" class is called "Joe"? You prolly have something like Person.name there so you should use something like:

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call expression namevariable.name + "_" + topicvariable

or overload __repr__ or __string__ special methods. I don't really understand why you're doing this but you should be able to get stuff like this to work (more often than not).

[Baal7734]

That worked. Thanks Xela!