Hide textbox, character images while inventory/stat screen is shown

[GSoda]

Hello and apologies if a similar question was already answered. I am new and the board search always times out on me.

My code is as follows:

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default show_stats = False
default show_contacts = False
default show_test = True

screen my_stats():    
    imagebutton auto "mobile_%s.png" at topright action ToggleVariable("show_stats")
    if show_stats:
        frame:
            background "Misc/phone.png"
            xpos .4
            hbox:
                yoffset 50
                text "POOO"
                textbutton "Contacts" action ToggleVariable("show_contacts")
                if show_contacts:
                    frame:
                        hbox:
                            text "TEST"
                            if show_test:
                                image("button_idle.png")
                            
                text "mooo"

What it is supposed to do is place an imagebutton in the topright corner of my screen which upon clicking shows a stat screen that looks like a mobile phone. The plan is to have three pages with stats, contacts, and messages.

The screen comes up as planed, but the problem is that I also want the game to hide the textbox and any character sprites currently displayed when the mobile screen comes up, which it doesn't do currently. Clicking anywhere that isn't a text/imagebutton also advances the game which I also do not want.

Does anyone have an idea how I could achieve this?

[DannX]

There are possibly other ways to do this, but you can use two screens, one to show the phone button, and different screens to show the stats and other menus, that can be invoked by that button with the ShowMenu screen action.

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screen phone_button():

    textbutton "My Stats" action ShowMenu('phone_menu')
    
screen phone_menu():
    #Show the player's stats
    text "Player's stats here"
        
    textbutton "Return" yalign .5 action Return()
        
label start:
    show screen phone_button #show the button screen
    
    "Test"
    
    return

ShowMenu hides everything before showing the screen you're passing it, and stops the game from advancing until you exit from it. Always remember to add a button to that screen so the player can exit.

EDIT: It doesn't seem to hide character sprites. Hmm... I'll have to tinker with this a bit more.

[Remix]

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init python:
    config.menu_clear_layers.append('master')

Should clear the 'master' layer when doing ShowMenu... Alternatively (as it might clear backgrounds too) move the sprites to a named layer and add that to config clear

[Imperf3kt]

To stop the game progressing while in your inventory screen, add

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    modal True

Near the top of the screen.

[GSoda]

Thanks to everyone! It now works like I want it to