SOLVED: How to add custom load screen when loading game?

[storykween]

I'm trying to add a custom loading screen that displays on screen while a saved game is loading in the background. My game takes a few seconds to load, and a few seconds yet more on mobile devices, so I want to make sure the player doesn't think the game has crashed.

I tried creating a simple loading screen like so:

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screen loadingGame:
    modal True
    zorder 200
    style_prefix "confirm"
    add "gui/overlay/confirm.png"
    xfill True
    yfill True
    add "loading" xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5

-- and having it display before loading the game, like so:

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 screen file_slots(title):
 
 	<---default code here---->
 
      button:
            action [Show("loadingGame"), FileAction(slot)] 

But it never shows up. Does anyone know how to fix this? And while I'm at it, how can I ensure it only shows up when people are loading, and not saving?

Thanks!

[TheChatotMaestro]

I'm useless at coding, but from a somewhat convolutedly logical point of view: you put it before the game loads, and set it to vanish when the main menu shows up... But the problem is, it can't show up until the game loads, and by then the main menu is already up. Does that make sense? (You might have to make it load the loading screen and then load the rest of the game, and I don't know how to make that happen.)

[Imperf3kt]

I'm useless at coding, but from a somewhat convolutedly logical point of view: you put it before the game loads, and set it to vanish when the main menu shows up... But the problem is, it can't show up until the game loads, and by then the main menu is already up. Does that make sense? (You might have to make it load the loading screen and then load the rest of the game, and I don't know how to make that happen.)

The OP is asking about loading a saved game not loading the game itself. For that, there's presplash
From the old documentation: https://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/co ... ader_Image

[Natalie]

Maybe something like this (Code not tested)?

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screen file_slots(title):

    # other codes
	
     button:
         if renpy.get_screen("load"):
             action Show("loadingGame", x = slot)
         else:
             action FileSave(slot)

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screen loadingGame(x):
	
    # Whatever you want to show in the loading screen
	
    timer 0.01 action FileLoad(x)
	

[storykween]

@Natalie, thanks so much, your code led me to the solution!

I couldn't use your code exactly, because the button didn't like having a condition on the action while also containing a vbox.

Here's what I ended up using:

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screen file_slots(title):

    # other codes
	
          button:
                 action Show("loadingGame", x = slot)


screen loadingGame(x):
    
    # display and formatting code here
    
    if renpy.get_screen("load"):
        timer 0.01 action FileLoad(x)
    else:
        timer 0.01 action [FileAction(x), Hide("loadingGame")]

This way the loading screen always triggers, but hides itself immediately if you're only saving a game.

Thanks for everyone's help!