config.overlay_screens actions

[Mirrodin]

Hi,

I have a screen named "gold_overlay";

I add on my label like this :

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config.overlay_screens.append('gold_overlay')

it work fine.

Sometime i want to delete the overlay, the doc say its a list so i try "remove"

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$ config.overlay_screens.remove('gold_overlay')

didnt work at all, what is the specific action to do it.

The ambition behind this is to actualize the screen.
For text and object it actualize auto yes but for picture its not the case.

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screen gold_overlay():

     add "interface.png" align (0.5, 0) 
     add "credit.png" zoom 0.3 align (0.13, 0.02)
     text '{color=#000000}[inventaire_joueur.credit]{/color}' align (0.18, 0.03) 
     hbox:
         xsize 120+joueur.pm_max/4 ysize 30
         
         add "mana.png" zoom 0.15
         bar value AnimatedValue(joueur.pm_actu, range=joueur.pm_max) ysize 15 
         align (0.25, 0.045)
     hbox:
         xsize 120+joueur.pv_max/4 ysize 30
         add "hp.png" zoom 0.15
         bar value AnimatedValue(joueur.pv_actu, range=joueur.pv_max) ysize 15
         align (0.25, 0.022)         
         
     text '[joueur.pm_actu]/[joueur.pm_max]' align (0.28, 0.045) size 14
     text '[joueur.pv_actu]/[joueur.pv_max]' align (0.28, 0.022) size 14
     
     if inventaire_ok: 
        textbutton "Inventaire" style "lilbutton" text_style "lilbutton_text" action Jump("inventaire") align (0.45, 0.03)
     
     if inventaire_avance:
        textbutton "zzz"  action Jump("dormir") align (0.52, 0.03)
        if calendrier.statut == 'jour':
            textbutton "attendre la nuit"  action Jump("attendre_nuit") align (0.61, 0.03)
     
        text calendrier.affichage_cal(lang) align (0.80, 0.03)
        text '[calendrier.statut]' align (0.71, 0) 

     zorder 100

i have the if statement for example,
by default they dont actualize.

Is the remove/append on config.overlay, the good choice ?

Thanks,
just for the record (and i guess you notified this, english is not my first langage)

[philat]

config variables are not supposed to be changed -- they are checked once at startup and then do not change. You can technically change them, but generally you shouldn't.

Frankly, in most instances, simply showing/hiding the overlay screen should suffice.

[Mirrodin]

Yeap, its what i do after the non response.
i m glad its the good solution here.
Thanks Philat.

[sg27digital]

I was looking for an answer to this question, because it's really easier for me to have a screen added in config like that.
For a part of my game the screen I added like this was interfering with the gameplay, so my solution to hiding it is making sure that the screen you're adding has a zorder property, so you can add a different screen with a larger zorder property on top of it.

If the screen has buttons you don't want to be able to be used behind your other screen, you can make your new screen modal true, or you can set buttonsensitive data on the always-on screen, and control it that way.

Hope this helps anyone else looking into this.