How do you make a button not do anything?

[AHAKuo]

I had this part in my game where I wanted the choices to not do anything. Kind of like to convey how unsure the character is about her decision. And I wanted the choices to move on their own with a timer, but I already did that.

I just want to know how I can make a menu choice not do anything when pressed.

[irredeemable]

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menu:
    "Do nothing.":
        pass
    "Do more nothing.":
        pass

[Andredron]

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menu:
    "1)do nothing":
        pass
    "2) yes":
        jump metka

[xavimat]

With the answers above the button still will do something (dismiss the menu).

If you want the buttons to actually do nothing (so, the player will click the button and it won't do anything, it won't disappear, it simply will look at them like a fish), you'll need to create your own screen. In that screen you can:

- Put buttons with "action None". They will be visible but disabled (greyed out, hovering not doing anything).
- Put buttons with "action NullAction()". They will be visible and active, hovering over them will work, but clicking on them will do nothing.

But remember, in that screen there should be some way to dismiss the screen (otherwise, the game will be stuck). Maybe with a timer?

[AHAKuo]

With the answers above the button still will do something (dismiss the menu).

If you want the buttons to actually do nothing (so, the player will click the button and it won't do anything, it won't disappear, it simply will look at them like a fish), you'll need to create your own screen. In that screen you can:

- Put buttons with "action None". They will be visible but disabled (greyed out, hovering not doing anything).
- Put buttons with "action NullAction()". They will be visible and active, hovering over them will work, but clicking on them will do nothing.

But remember, in that screen there should be some way to dismiss the screen (otherwise, the game will be stuck). Maybe with a timer?

Yes it does dismiss the menu. Which isn’t what I want. Hmm, showing a screen could help. Thank you for the response

[Lord Hisu]

There's a simpler but less elegant way to do what you want.
You can create a label right before the menu and then make the buttons check for a timer and jump to the label or continue with the decision.

[IrinaLazareva]

There's a simpler but less elegant way to do what you want.
You can create a label right before the menu and then make the buttons check for a timer and jump to the label or continue with the decision.

There is no need to create a label before menu. Menu statement has own label:

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    menu my_label:
        "Do nothing":
            jump my_label
        "Next":
            pass

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/menus.ht ... drink_menu

[Lord Hisu]

There is no need to create a label before menu. Menu statement has own label:

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    menu my_label:
        "Do nothing":
            jump my_label
        "Next":
            pass

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/menus.ht ... drink_menu

Oh, thank you for pointing that. It's not that bad then, probably better than create a screen.

[AHAKuo]

There's a simpler but less elegant way to do what you want.
You can create a label right before the menu and then make the buttons check for a timer and jump to the label or continue with the decision.

Right. That's a better way to go about it. Thank you <3