How to show the textbox during renpy.input?

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How to show the textbox during renpy.input?

#1 Post by ConerNSFW » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:17 pm

The textbox doesn't show during renpy.input and as far as I know it's supposed to. I decided against using the say screen to display my textbox for this reason and used a custom screen, but I would prefer to use the say screen, anyway here's the say screen code incase there's anything wrong with it.

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"
    window:
        id "window"

        
        if not cutscene:           
            background "gui/textbox.png"
            text what id "what"
            if who is not None:

                window:
                    style "namebox"
                    text who id "who"
        elif cutscene:
            background "gui/textbox_cutscene.png"
            text what id "what":
                xpos 182
            if who is not None:

                window:
                    style "namebox2"
                    text who id "who"

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Re: How to show the textbox during renpy.input?

#2 Post by Ocelot » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:26 pm

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... management

As far as I remember renpy.input call screen 'input' internally, so something like that should help:

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window show
$ renpy.input('What is your name?')
window auto
< < insert Rick Cook quote here > >

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Re: How to show the textbox during renpy.input?

#3 Post by ConerNSFW » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:30 pm

Thanks but I've tried the 'window show' command and it hasn't helped, neither has window auto.

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