Setting up the Date Indicator

[Zeekee]

Hey, all! So, I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to get the in-game date indicator to display properly. This is the code I have for it so far:

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screen dateandtime:
    add "GUI/date_back.png":
        xpos 940
        ypos 0
    text "April":
        xpos 1000
        ypos 50
        size 28
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]
    text "Wednesday":
        xpos 1010
        ypos 100
        size 18
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]
    text "15".zfill(2):
        xpos 1160
        ypos 48
        size 52
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]

I use the following to call it in the script:

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show screen dateandtime

Unfortunately, whenever I try and use variables instead of static values like "April" or "Wednesday," Renpy returns an error. This is what I tried doing:

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show screen dateandtime("April", "Wednesday", "15")

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screen dateandtime (str month, str week, str day):
    add "GUI/date_back.png":
        xpos 940
        ypos 0
    text "[month]":
        xpos 1000
        ypos 50
        size 28
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]
    text "[week]":
        xpos 1010
        ypos 100
        size 18
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]
    text "[day]".zfill(2):
        xpos 1160
        ypos 48
        size 52
        outlines [(2,color('#0009'),1,1)]

Which returns:

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/game_char.rpy", line 170: expected ',' not found.
    screen dateandtime (str month, str week, str day):
                            ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.10.1227

To be fair, I haven't used Python at all before delving into Renpy. I believe that I may be mixing up syntax with other languages, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for in the online documentation.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Divona]

Python does not need explicit declaration as it does that automatically when you assign a value to a variable. All you have to do is this:

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screen dateandtime(month, week, day):

[Zeekee]

Thanks, Divona! Works like a charm