Displaying text at a particular x y coordinate

[Dookiesh0ez]

I'm trying to use show screen to show text at a certain coordinate. I saw documentation that it should look something like this

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screen money:
    text ("%d" % money)
    xpos 10.0
    ypos 10.0

But that isn't working, the text always displays at the upper left corner, 0, 0. And frustratingly I now can't find the page in the documentation or wiki where I originally found this and I need to get this done to move on.

So what is the correct way to set the coordinates of this text?

[xavimat]

Two problems and a two suggestions:

1. There is an indentation problem in your code. Here there are two options.
2. An integer number means "pixels" a float number means "% in the screen". This is somewhat tricky, see the tutorial game to learn about it.
3. Don't need the % python code, the simple [variable] should do.
4. Don't forget the parenthesis in the screen definition (it's improved SL).

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screen money():
    text "[money]" xpos 10 ypos 10
    text "[money]":
        xpos 10
        ypos 10

[Dookiesh0ez]

Two problems and a two suggestions:

1. There is an indentation problem in your code. Here there are two options.
2. An integer number means "pixels" a float number means "% in the screen". This is somewhat tricky, see the tutorial game to learn about it.
3. Don't need the % python code, the simple [variable] should do.
4. Don't forget the parenthesis in the screen definition (it's improved SL).

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screen money():
    text "[money]" xpos 10 ypos 10
    text "[money]":
        xpos 10
        ypos 10

Thanks for the quick reply. Good to know the float / int difference. And I never would have known the indentation was wrong because I wasn't getting any exceptions, strange.

[xavimat]

And I never would have known the indentation was wrong because I wasn't getting any exceptions, strange.

I'll report it as a possible bug: Should xpos and ypos outside a screen element cause an exception?

[Dookiesh0ez]

I don't know, I'm not that familiar with renpy, but every other indentation error i've had so far has caused one. I don't really see how xpos and ypos outside of the correct syntax could be useful though.

[xavimat]

renpytom has solved it. It was a bug. In the next release it should throw an exception (IIUIC).
Thanks.

https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/1188