Triggering animation whenever character speaks

[dirtydonnie]

Is there a way for a transform to trigger for a specific character whenever their dialogue is on screen?

I basically want to zoom in the sprite a bit whenever they talk and zoom out when not.

[trooper6]

You are looking for Character Callbacks: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/character_callbacks.html

[dirtydonnie]

can you give an example of how? im really lost.
I want this to happen:

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show pl at zoomin
pl "Placeholder text"
show pl at zoomout

and i tried this using the example:

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init python:
    def plzoom(event, interact=True, **kwargs):
        if not interact:
            return
            
        if event == "show_done":
            show pl at zoomin
        elif event == "slow_done":
            show pl at zoomout
            
define pl = Character("pl", callback=plzoom)

but it doesnt work.