A way to make custom cursor preference persistent data?

[puffinlady]

Hello!

I recently figured out how to give players the option to choose which cursor they want to use. It works great, except for one thing: the data isn't persistent, so when the player opens the game up again, their setting has reverted to the default.

I'm completely stumped on how I'm supposed to go about making it persistent...

Here's the snippet in my preferences screen that changes the cursor:

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hotspot (265, 297, 37, 34) action SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}) ## This is the first game cursor option for the player
hotspot (313, 297, 40, 35) action SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]}) ## This is the second game cursor option
hotspot (361, 299, 132, 28) action SetField(config, "mouse", None) ## This makes the cursor the player's own computer cursor

And here's config.mouse from options.rpy (probably the culprit, dunno how to catch it):

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define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}

[zabuzaeldemonio]

I do not know if this served you but I would do the following:

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        hotspot (265, 297, 37, 34) action [SetVariable("persistent.cursor1", "True"), SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]]}) ## This is the first game cursor option for the player
        hotspot (265, 297, 37, 34) action [SetVariable("persistent.cursor2", "True"), SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]]}) ## This is the second game cursor option
        hotspot (361, 299, 132, 28) action SetField(config, "mouse", None) ## This makes the cursor the player's own computer cursor

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        if persistent.cursor1:
             define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}
        elif persistent.cursor2:
             define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]}
        else:
            define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}

[puffinlady]

I do not know if this served you but I would do the following:

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        hotspot (265, 297, 37, 34) action [SetVariable("persistent.cursor1", "True"), SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]]}) ## This is the first game cursor option for the player
        hotspot (265, 297, 37, 34) action [SetVariable("persistent.cursor2", "True"), SetField(config, "mouse", {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]]}) ## This is the second game cursor option
        hotspot (361, 299, 132, 28) action SetField(config, "mouse", None) ## This makes the cursor the player's own computer cursor

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        if persistent.cursor1:
             define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}
        elif persistent.cursor2:
             define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]}
        else:
            define config.mouse = {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}

Nope, didn't work. Trying to do it this way only confused the imagemap and made multiple buttons selected at the same time on restart.

Also, for persistent variables, you have to do SetField(persistent, "variable", "value"), not SetVariable().

[puffinlady]

Update on my problem.

So, I figured out a way to make it persistent, by creating the variable persistent.mouseconfig and having config.mouse = persistent.mouseconfig.

And I made the preference action SetField(persistent, "mouseconfig", {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]}) and so on and so forth.

However, it now no longer changes instantly, and the player must restart the game to see their cursor choice. Having multiple actions that change both persistent.mouseconfig and config.mouse just results in an imagemap selected/unselected mess on restart, and the buttons no longer function.

So now I wonder:

1. Is there a way to force Ren'Py to refresh/re-check config.mouse when the player makes their choice so that it changes instantly? I'm fine with looking in to custom functions and such if there's a Python solution to this.
2. If not, should I be approaching this from a different angle?

Full changes to the code here if anyone wants to try testing and figuring it out for themselves. I made them textbuttons too so you don't have to mess with that.

options.rpy

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default persistent.mouseconfig = None

#### some ways down ####

define config.mouse = persistent.mouseconfig

screens.rpy, in the Preferences screen

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        label _("Cursor")
        textbutton _("Cursor 1") action SetField(persistent, "mouseconfig", {"default": [("gui/cursor.png", 1, 1)]})
        textbutton _("Cursor 2") action SetField(persistent, "mouseconfig", {"default": [("gui/cursor2.png", 1, 1)]})
        textbutton _("System Cursor") action SetField(persistent, "mouseconfig", None)