Disable skipping for a scene, with skip all button

[sarbezleeb]

I'd like for the opening sequence of the game to be unskippable, meaning the images and text automatically scroll by at a pace that i've already set. I want to disable skipping the text by pressing space or clicking or anything. This should be relatively straightforward with a line of code that i've come across here:

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config.allow_skipping = False

I put this line in the options.rpy file, under the "#More customizations can go here" line, but it doesn't seem to work, I can still skip text at my own speed. I'd also like to have only label section of the game unskippable, so I'd rather put it somewhere in the script.rpy file rather than apply it to the whole game.
I've also come across another solution, which disables clicking while an animation takes place.

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label start:
    python:
        ui.vbox(xalign=.5, yalign=.5)
        ui.image(Animation("swords.png", 0.25,
                                "guy2.png", 0.25,
                                "whatever_other_picture_you_want_to_use.png", 0.25,
                                "transparent.png",200000000))
        ui.close()
        ui.pausebehavior( 30, result="Skip") 
        ui.interact()

however, my cutscene has a mixture of images and text with a variety of formatting on them, which I can't seem to imbed into this command.

Any adjustments to either of these options (or another option) would be greatly appreciated.

[jw2pfd]

I am not sure if this will suit your exact purposes or not, but a hard pause may work for what you need. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.html#renpy.pause

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    $ renpy.pause(5.0, hard=True)   #replace 5.0 with whatever time you actually need

The hard flag being set to True makes it so users can't click to go past the pause.

[sarbezleeb]

Unfortunately this won't work for me, as I need to have text and images go by the entire time, and the player will still be able to click through the text as it scrolls.

Surely there's a way for "config.allow_skipping = False" to work? If it's on the Ren'py website it should be able to work.

[philat]

The top of the page you link to explicitly states that Ren'py assumes configuration variables will not be changed after initialization.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/store_va ... -_skipping

[sarbezleeb]

Right, so is there any way for me to change this sort of variable halfway through the game? Would I have to call on another script for this to work? Please be as explicit as possible as im not very experience with Ren'py.