[SOLVED]Applying animations/transformations to the textbox

[Skyrius]

Hey all, so I was reading through this old thread: viewtopic.php?t=26818

Which unfortunately is a bit obsolete due to the changes to the screen.rpy over the course of multiple updates, but I was trying to update the solution to work with the current ren'py engine. The example is for a shaking textbox, but I think it can be generalized to any user defined animations, which would let you do a lot of nifty stuff with the textbox.

I thought about using the on statement, but unfortunately that makes it so the ALL the say screens will use this effect, rather that having one particular line cause the animation.

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transform textshake:
    on show:
        Shake(None, 1.0, dist=5)

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"
    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:
            window:
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"

        text what id "what"       
        at textshake

^doesn't quite work, but something like that

I feel like the below should still work since the show_arguments passes whatever you put after 'show_' as an argument to the say screen.

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define e = Character('Eileen', color="#c8ffc8")
define e_shake = Character('Eileen', kind=e, show_window_transform=Shake(None, 1.0, dist=5))

Though unfortunately window_transform I believe is the old variable used in previous versions of screen.rpy

So maybe adding an additional argument to the new say screen?

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screen say(who, what, effect):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        ...
        make use of effect somewhere here?

I'm most likely missing something very obvious on account of not using python very often XD

There is one other way I could think of, which is define a custom screen for every type of animation, but I feel like there should be a way to generalize it so you can just pass an argument instead of having to define 5 different screens

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screen shakescreen(who, what):
    window id "window":
        vbox at 'user_defined_transform':
            spacing 10
            ...etc

^for example, you'd need a bunch of those (I think)

[Skyrius]

nvm, got it working after messing around a bit. The answer was indeed just passing an extra variable, I just derped on my indentations lol.

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transform NullTransform:
    pass

screen say(who, what, window_transform=NullTransform):
    style_prefix "say"

    if window_transform is None:
        window:
            id "window"

            if who is not None:

                window:
                    id "namebox"
                    style "namebox"
                    text who id "who"

            text what id "what"
    else:
        window at window_transform:
            id "window"

            if who is not None:

                window at window_transform:
                    id "namebox"
                    style "namebox"
                    text who id "who"

            text what id "what" 

Just pass in show_window_transform = your_custom_code_here to the say screen (I just made a special character for when the screen needed to do something) and you can make your textbox do all sorts of things, fly around, shake, dissolve, etc, for a specific line. The code above is specifically if you wanna use a transform but I imagine you can also replace it with whatever custom python code you want as well (for non-transform effects)