Creating a Tooltip Example? [SOLVED]

[Katy133]

I've been trying to create a "tooltip" screen by copying this example and pasting it into the screens file:

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screen tooltip_example():
    
    vbox:
        textbutton "North":
            action Return("n")
            tooltip "To meet a polar bear."

        textbutton "South":
            action Return("s")
            tooltip "All the way to the tropics."

        textbutton "East":
            action Return("e")
            tooltip "So we can embrace the dawn."

        textbutton "West":
            action Return("w")
            tooltip "Where to go to see the best sunsets."

        $ tooltip = GetTooltip()

        if tooltip:
            text "[tooltip]"

However, when I try to open the game, I get this message:

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/screens.rpy", line 1486: u'tooltip' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the textbutton statement.
    tooltip "To meet a polar bear."
           ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.13.2919

I'm trying to create an example tooltip display just to test out what it looks like. I've never made one before, and have never seen in-game screenshots of what Ren'Py tooltips look like, so I don't know how this tooltip tutorial manifests in a Ren'Py game.

[philat]

I would expect you don't have the latest update. That's a very recent addition to renpy.

[Katy133]

I would expect you don't have the latest update. That's a very recent addition to renpy.

Thank you! Updating Ren'Py worked.
For those interested in the updated Tooltip feature, you'll also need to add a button/route to display the screen. I used a Quick Menu button for this example.

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screen quick_menu():

    ## Ensure this appears on top of other screens.
    zorder 100

    if quick_menu:

        hbox:
            style_prefix "quick"

            xalign 0.5
            yalign 1.0

            textbutton _("Back") action Rollback()
            textbutton _("History") action ShowMenu('history')
            textbutton _("Skip") action Skip() alternate Skip(fast=True, confirm=True)
            textbutton _("Auto") action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")
            textbutton _("Save") action ShowMenu('save')
            textbutton _("Q.Save") action QuickSave()
            textbutton _("Q.Load") action QuickLoad()
            textbutton _("Prefs") action ShowMenu('preferences')
            #Tooltip edit:
            textbutton _("Tooltip") action ShowMenu('tooltip_example')

Basically, when you press the Tooltip Quick Menu button, the different textbuttons ("North," "South," "East," "West"). Mousing over them shows the tooltip text ("To meet a polar bear," etc), and clicking a textbutton performs the action (Return).