Creating a label in a user-defined statement

[valeatory]

I'm making an event system for our project and thought it would be easier on the people writing the events if they could put all of the information on an event in a header at the top of it, rather than away from the event in a separate event selection method - so I've tried out making that work with a user defined statement.

I think I've mostly gotten it working (and I've attached the project at the bottom for anyone who's interested in checking out how it's set up) but one thing I'd prefer is to remove the redundancy in the event and label names by having the event header create the label itself.

Currently, the event looks like this, with the would-be generated label name typed manually by the writer:

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event eileen meeting1:
    option "Talk to Eileen"
    desc "She seems to be available right now."
    conditions:
        location in ("common room", "library")
        is_before_class or is_free_time

label event_eileen_meeting1:
    "You talk with Eileen for a while."

However, I'd prefer to get the event to look like this, with the label name typed only once.

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event eileen meeting1:
    option "Talk to Eileen"
    desc "She seems to be available right now."
    conditions:
        location in ("common room", "library")
        is_before_class or is_free_time
    label:
        "You talk with Eileen for a while."

Is something like that possible?

[Remix]

Weird, you are doing something rather similar to what I just started doing within an old time-of-day event handler review and improve.
I had actually opted to go with registering the events during the 'parse' call rather than 'execute' because I thought Ren'py might not execute them all prior to the player actually reaching them... might change that.

Anyway, my thoughts:

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label some_label:
    register event: <--- creator defined block - just a call to start the parse - all others vals in the block
         # various conditions and values

Putting the Creator Defined Statement inside the label *should* allow us to use renpy translate features to basically determine the label name where the line exists using something like:

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label_name = "_".join( renpy.game.context().translate_identifier.split("_")[:-1] )
# everything up to the last underscore should be the label name

# within the parse call, renpy.game.context().translate_identifier *should* hold a string identifier for the line
# that ren'py was reading (the register event: line) when it made the call, something like:
# some_label_6557f7a44 

Still Ren'py-esque and feasibly should work though still not tested