How to fade namebox in and out?

[Arianne]

I'm currently having a problem with the namebox for my character dialogue boxes - it is a separate file to my actual dialogue box, and whilst the dialogue box can fade in and out nicely the namebox just pops in and I can't seem to get it to transition in correctly. Any pointers?

[mobychan]

depends on your code, but maybe try looking at "at":

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screen a():
    fixed:
        at my_custom
        # Other Screen Stuff you need

[Arianne]

sorry - I'm a bit new to all this - where should I try putting that code?

[mobychan]

As I said, it all depends on your code, I have no idea what your code looks like

[SundownKid]

In screens.rpy, you have to change:

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if who:            
            window:
                style "say_who_window"

                text who:
                    id "who"

To:

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if who:            
            window at alpha_dissolve:
                style "say_who_window"

                text who:
                    id "who"

Then create a transform:

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transform alpha_dissolve:
    alpha 0.0
    linear 0.5 alpha 1.0
    on hide:
        linear 0.5 alpha 0

You can change the timing of it if you want to make it faster or slower. The only problem is that it will fade back in whenever there is new line of text. I am not totally sure how to make it fade in/out only when there is no namebox.

[Arianne]

In screens.rpy, you have to change:

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if who:            
            window:
                style "say_who_window"

                text who:
                    id "who"

To:

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if who:            
            window at alpha_dissolve:
                style "say_who_window"

                text who:
                    id "who"

Then create a transform:

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transform alpha_dissolve:
    alpha 0.0
    linear 0.5 alpha 1.0
    on hide:
        linear 0.5 alpha 0

You can change the timing of it if you want to make it faster or slower. The only problem is that it will fade back in whenever there is new line of text. I am not totally sure how to make it fade in/out only when there is no namebox.

I tried that but it came up with this error:

"u'alpha_dissolve' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the transform statement."