Game Menu Buttons

[PyTom]

Here's some code I whipped together that adds buttons on the screen that link to various parts of the game menu, and also a button that toggles skipping.

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# This file adds a number of buttons to the lower-right hand corner of
# the screen. Three of these buttons jump to the game menu, which
# giving quick access to Load, Save, and Prefs. The fourth button
# toggles skipping, to make that more convenient.

init:

    # Give us some space on the right side of the screen.
    $ style.window.right_margin = 100

    python:

        def toggle_skipping():
            config.skipping = not config.skipping

        def button_game_menu():

            # to save typing
            ccinc = renpy.curried_call_in_new_context

            ui.vbox(xpos=0.98, ypos=0.98, xanchor='right', yanchor='bottom')
            ui.textbutton("Skip", clicked=toggle_skipping)
            ui.textbutton("Save", clicked=ccinc("_game_menu_save"))
            ui.textbutton("Load", clicked=ccinc("_game_menu_load"))
            ui.textbutton("Prefs", clicked=ccinc("_game_menu_preferences"))
            ui.close()


        config.overlay_functions.append(button_game_menu)

Drop it into your game directory to try it out. If you like image buttons, you could get them by changing the calls to textbutton into calls to imagebutton, with the appropriate image files as arguments. (Ask me if this is unclear.)

[Strum]

Hi, this piece of code is just what I needed for my VN project. However, can you please rewrite the code to use imagebuttons instead of textbuttons? Thanks

[Aleema]

Hi, this piece of code is just what I needed for my VN project. However, can you please rewrite the code to use imagebuttons instead of textbuttons? Thanks

Surely you could do that ... I mean, you would have to supply the images to begin with. o_O

[Strum]

I don't quite understand how the imagebuttons work. directly swapping the textbutton with imagebutton along with all the correct varibles in the brackets don't seem to work. I copy and pasted the code onto my own script then tried to change the textbuttons for imagebuttons. Ah, I should mention that I just started to use ren'py yesterday. Anyway, swapping

ui.textbutton("Skip", clicked=("Skip", clicked=toggle_skipping)

for

ui.imagebutton("SkipA.png", "SkipB.png", clicked=("Skip", clicked=toggle_skipping)

gives me an error of

Exception: Syntax error on line 64 of C:\Test/game/script.rpy

While compiling python block starting at line 56 of C:\Test/game/script.rpy.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 260, in bootstrap
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\main.py", line 171, in main
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\script.py", line 477, in load_script
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\script.py", line 155, in __init__
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\script.py", line 371, in load_appropriate_file
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\script.py", line 333, in load_file
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\script.py", line 426, in update_bytecode
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\python.py", line 250, in py_compile_exec_bytecode
File "C:\renpy-6.9.3\renpy\python.py", line 234, in py_compile
Exception: Syntax error on line 64 of C:\Test/game/script.rpy

While compiling python block starting at line 56 of C:\Test/game/script.rpy.

[Showsni]

You seem to have repeated part of the code; instead of
ui.textbutton("Skip", clicked=toggle_skipping)
you've got
ui.textbutton("Skip", clicked=("Skip", clicked=toggle_skipping)
.
Try
ui.imagebutton("SkipA.png", "SkipB.png", clicked=toggle_skipping)
, maybe?

[Strum]

Thanks, that seemed to do the trick. I can't believe I added one too many brackets.

[Thee Forsaken One]

I've been trying to set up one for my own game but it won't show up in-game. Any ideas what the problem is?

I originally had the imagebuttons outside of vboxes but that didn't seem to work so I tried it within and that didn't work either. :/

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init python:
    
    def toggle_skipping():
        config.skipping = not config.skipping
        
    def toggle_cps():
        config.has_cps = not config.has_cps
             
    def button_game_menu():

        # to save typing
        ccinc = renpy.curried_call_in_new_context
        
        ui.vbox( xpos=622, ypos=398)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLoption.png", "GUI/RLoption1.png", clicked=ccinc("_game_menu_preferences"), hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        ui.vbox( xpos=662, ypos=550)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLskip.png", "GUI/RLskip1.png", clicked=toggle_skipping,  hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        ui.vbox( xpos=704, ypos=527)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLauto.png", "GUI/RLauto.png", clicked=toggle_cps,  hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        
        config.overlay_functions.append(button_game_menu)

[Alex]

I think, the problem is indentation in last line. Try

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    def button_game_menu():

        # to save typing
        ccinc = renpy.curried_call_in_new_context
        
        ui.vbox( xpos=622, ypos=398)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLoption.png", "GUI/RLoption1.png", clicked=ccinc("_game_menu_preferences"), hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        ui.vbox( xpos=662, ypos=550)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLskip.png", "GUI/RLskip1.png", clicked=toggle_skipping,  hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        ui.vbox( xpos=704, ypos=527)
        ui.imagebutton("GUI/RLauto.png", "GUI/RLauto.png", clicked=toggle_cps,  hover_sound="sounds/hover.wav", activate_sound="sounds/click.wav")
        ui.close()
        
    config.overlay_functions.append(button_game_menu)

[Thee Forsaken One]

Thanks that fixed it. I hate it when it's such a simple mistake. > <