Side Text Box

[Ragnos]

Like a bunch of other people I'm working on a Ren'py project! Who knew? Anyway, in my project the player goes through day to day stuff (Turns actually). The medieval city is constantly changing and every time the player starts another turn I wanted a text box in the bottom left corner that displays text of what has happened in the city recently. Here is an image to better elaborate on.



When the player choose where to go (Thus the other buttons) a random event will be picked displaying the normal dialogue box with an image.

So how do I go about making the "Recent events" box?
Also, the "Recent Events" will be random as well.

[wyverngem]

Here, this should get you started.

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init:
    $ x = 1066 #Screen size x
    $ y = 600 #Screen size y
    $ display_events = ""
    $ place = ""
    
screen recent_events:
    vbox:
        xalign 0.1
        yalign 1.0
        xminimum int(x*0.5)
        yminimum int(y*0.5)
        frame:
            text display_events
        
screen worldmap:
    modal True #Don't interact underneath it.
    frame:
        xfill True
        yfill True
        vbox:
            xalign 0.5
            yalign 0.5
            textbutton "Village" action [SetVariable('place', "Village"), Jump('random_events')]
            textbutton "Castle" action [SetVariable('place', ""), Jump('random_events')]
    use recent_events
    
label start:
    show screen worldmap
    
label worldmap:
    call screen worldmap
    jump worldmap

label random_events:
    $ RandomNum = renpy.random.randint(1,3)
    if RandomNum == 1:
        $ display_events = "This is my display event."
    elif RandomNum == 2: 
        $ display_events = "This is my display event."
    elif RandomNum == 3: 
        $ display_events = "This is my display event."
    else:
        $ display_events = ""
    if place == "Village":
        jump village
    else:
        "No place selected."
        jump worldmap
        
label village:
    "Do stuff in village. Go back to world map."
    jump worldmap

[Ragnos]

Thanks, I really appreciate it.