Trouble with main menu video background & button positioning

[Creezd]

First of all I'd like to say thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. I have read the new UI documentation and have been able to figure out most things I wanted to do, but have had trouble with these two things.

Problem 1: Main menu video background

I am trying to use an .avi as my main menu background (Behind the text and buttons). The first thing I tried was simply replacing the default png background like this, but it didn't work for obvious reasons:

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define gui.main_menu_background = "images/video/mm.avi"

I then did a bit of research and found this code which I put just below screen main_menu():. The problem is that this causes a a blank alpha main menu with no buttons or text. I'm thinking this will work but I must be doing something wrong.

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screen main_menu():

    tag menu

    add Movie(size=(1920, 1080))
    on "show" action Play("movie", "images/video/mm.avi", loop=True)
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replace" action Play("movie", "images/video/mm.avi", loop=True)
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

Problem 2: Main menu button positioning

I would like to have the main menu buttons on the bottom of the screen going from left to right. In the old UI I did this by doing an imagemap, but this doesn't seem to be possible anymore. I've figured out how to move the buttons on the menu as a group, but not how to change their orientation individually.

[Imperf3kt]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html
Should fix issue #1
Check:
- Your AVI uses a supported codec
- You can change the menu bg to a video with:
Add the following anywhere outside a label. If you're unsure, place it in an init block

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image main_menu = Movie(channel="main_menu", play="main_menu.avi")

Then find the screen called 'main menu' and add

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    add "main_menu"

I believe this does not (and there's no work-around except ATL) work on Android.


Issue #2:
To position the buttons horizontally using the latest GUI, you'll need to do a reasonably significant adjustment to some screens.

Go to the main menu screen and remove the line that says "use game_menu"

Now you may use your imagemap method, or the more recommended (and in my opinion, better) imagebuttons inside a hbox or other container.

[Creezd]

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This is great stuff! I've already gotten started on the imagebuttons and I don't think that's going to be an issue, and I was able to get the video background working after converting the .avi to a .webm with a compatible codec.

Thanks for your help Imperf3kt. I really appreciate it