[Solved] How to Define Custom Color for Typing Cursor?

[Katy133]

I'm trying to figure out how to define a custom colour for the caret/"blinking typing cursor" that appears when you ask the player to input a name for the player character.

I know that the color that's effecting the colour of the name input is:

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define gui.accent_color = '#8c698c'

But if I change this, it'll also change the colour of other places of the interface/GUI, which I don't want; I only want to effect the caret's colour.

Is there any way to create a 'define' label (something like 'define gui.naming_colour') to just affect the caret's colour and nothing else? I'm using Ren'Py version 6.99.12

[Scribbles]

you could try messing around with the code in the input screen under screens.rpy not 100% how to do what you want though I'm sorry. it uses the style prefix for input and then there is a bit of code at the top you could try adjusting (again, not sure how sorry)

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style input:
    properties gui.text_properties("input", accent=True)
    adjust_spacing False

[Katy133]

you could try messing around with the code in the input screen under screens.rpy not 100% how to do what you want though I'm sorry. it uses the style prefix for input and then there is a bit of code at the top you could try adjusting (again, not sure how sorry)

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style input:
    properties gui.text_properties("input", accent=True)
    adjust_spacing False

Thank you so much!

With that info, I was able to figure out where the caret's colour style was located (I didn't realise before that the caret was labeled as 'input' in Ren'Py).

I needed to edit a section from the 'screens.rpy' to this:

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style input:
    color gui.naming_color

And then I edited this section in the 'gui.rpy' to change the caret's/input's colour:

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define gui.naming_color = '#302c46'

Thanks again for the help!

[Scribbles]

I'm glad that helped!