Need help on bringing up a map with a key

[final513]

So for my game, I wanna have a map that you can bring up when you hit a key, sort of like a function. Can anyone point me to where I'd figure out how to do that? Thanks.

[papiersam]

You can either set the _game_screen_menu to the map screen (which will replace the game menu), or you can have a key assigned to call the screen, something like:

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key "K_a" action Show("mapscrn", transition=dissolve)

Here, pygame keys are used to assign the screen to the 'a' key.

Hope that helps.

[final513]

I just tried to do this, but it's giving me the end of line expected error. Am I supposed to put it in the script file or somewhere else?

[papiersam]

It goes inside a screen, so something like

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screen bckgrnd:
    key "K_a" action Show("mapscrn", transition=dissolve)

label start:
    show screen bckgrnd
    "Now you can call the screen in the background."

If that doesn't work, you could try to append the function to the keymap.

[final513]

What exactly do you put in the parenthesis? is that an image you declare, cuz it seems to be responding to my input, but it's saying that the screen doesn't exist.

Also, let me explain what I'm trying to do so I can solve it all in one go. Each label (which in my game represents a room), the player can bring up the map but will show a different map (the map's gonna have a red dot showing where you are). So each label needs to be able to pull a different image I have setup. If you can help me with this, that'd be great.

Thanks again.