Screen variables with different languages

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

I've been trying to figure this out most of the afternoon but I'm not getting anywhere! I want to have slightly different preferences screens for each language (as the text sizes differ quite a lot per language).

Here's what I have in the preferences part of screens.rpy at the moment (this is just a small example):

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if Language is None:
    vbox:
        ypos 40
        spacing 30
        # etc
        
elif Language is "russian":
    vbox:
	ypos 44
        spacing 35
        # etc
            
else:
    vbox:
    	ypos 50
   	spacing 55
   	# etc

The problem is, it's defaulting to "else" at the moment. Previously, I tried "if Language == None:" "elif Language == "russian":" and these defaulted to the first statement. Basically, I seem to have gotten the variables wrong.

Languages can be changed on the main menu like so:

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        imagebutton idle "images/lang_english_off1.png" hover "uk_flag" selected_idle "images/lang_english_on.png" selected_hover "images/lang_english_on.png" action Language(None)
        imagebutton idle "images/lang_russian_off1.png" hover "russia_flag" selected_idle "images/lang_russian_on.png" selected_hover "images/lang_russian_on.png" action Language("russian")
        imagebutton idle "images/lang_french_off1.png" hover "france_flag" selected_idle "images/lang_french_on.png" selected_hover "images/lang_french_on.png" action Language("french")

and at the top of script.rpy, I have this:

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translate None python:
    style.default.font = "IHATCS__.TTF"

translate russian python:
    style.default.font = "neucha.otf"
    
translate french python: # this font is really big, hence all the changes!
    style.default.size = 38
    style.menu_choice.size = 34
    style.mainmenu_choice.size = 34
    style.mainmenu_choice.line_leading = -8
    style.grey_choice.size = 34
    style.file_picker.size = 24
    style.gallery_ui.size = 24
    style.yesno_label_text.size = 38
    style.titles.size = 50
    style.default.font = "Bromine.ttf"

Any ideas?

[Ocelot]

1) What prevents you from defining style for your vbox and translating it?

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style my_vbox is whatever_style_it_was_using_before:
    # default language
    ypos 40
    spacing 30
# . . .
    vbox:
        style my_vbox 
# . . .
translate russian style my_vbox:
    ypos 44
    spacing 35

2) Do not use 'is' unless you do need it and its semantic.

"==" is equality. it means that two things have same properties.

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a = [ 2 ]
b = [ 2 ]
a == b # True, both are lists containing a single number 2

"is" is identity. It means that two things are actually same thing.

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a = [ 2 ]
b = [ 2 ]
a is b # False, those are different lists. if we append a number to list b, nothing will change for list a
c = a
a is c # True. Both are same list. append number to a and c will change too[code]

[Kinmoku]

Thanks for clarifying "is" and "==" Ocelot

1) What prevents you from defining style for your vbox and translating it?

I guess being smart ^^; I don't know how to use styles very well, but there's more than a vbox going on. Here's the whole thing I want to jiggle and adjust for each language:

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        vbox:
            xanchor 0.5
            xpos 0.5
            ypos 40
            spacing 40 ##
            
            text _("General Settings"):
                style "titles"
                xpos 475 ##
                ypos 10 ##

            hbox:
                style_group "pref"
                spacing 45 ##
                
                text _("Display") ypos 40 xpos 12 ##
                
                button:
                    action Preference("display", "window")
                    style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                    text _("Window") style "mainmenu_choice"
                    
                button:
                    action Preference("display", "fullscreen")
                    style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                    text _("Fullscreen") style "mainmenu_choice"
                    
                text _("Text") xpos 80 ypos 40

                button:
                    xpos 75
                    
                    action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")
                    style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                    text _("Auto-play") style "mainmenu_choice"
                    
            hbox:
                style_group "pref"
                spacing 55 ##
                xalign 0.5
                
                text _("Music Volume") ypos 20
                
                bar value Preference("music volume") ypos 22 ##
                
            hbox:
                style_group "pref"
                spacing 55 ##
                xalign 0.5
                
                text _("Sound Volume") ypos 47

                bar value Preference("sound volume") ypos 45 ##
                
            hbox:    
                style_group "pref"
                spacing 50 ##
                xalign 0.5
                ypos 52
                
                vbox:
                    text _("Fast-Forward Settings"):
                        style "titles"
                        xpos 200
                        ypos 10

                    hbox:
                        style_group "pref"
                        spacing 55 ##
                        xalign 0.5
                        ypos 20                 
                        text _("Fast-Forward") ypos 40 xpos 12 ##
                        
                        button:
                            action Preference("skip", "seen")
                            style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                            text _("Seen Text") style "mainmenu_choice"
                            
                        button:
                            action Preference("skip", "all")
                            style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                            text _("All Text") style "mainmenu_choice"
                            
                    hbox:
                        style_group "pref"
                        spacing 55 ##
                        xalign 0.5
                        ypos 48
                        
                        text _("After Choices") yalign 0.5 xpos 8 ##
                        
                        button:
                            action Preference("after choices", "stop")
                            style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                            text _("Stop FF") style "mainmenu_choice"
                            
                        button:
                            action Preference("after choices", "skip")
                            style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                            text _("Continue FF") style "mainmenu_choice"

                vbox:
                    text _("Progress Settings"):
                        style "titles"
                        ypos 10
                    
                    button:
                        xalign 0.5
                        ypos 85
                        
                        action Show("reset_popup")
                        style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                        text _("Reset Game") style "mainmenu_choice"

I managed it for the style above "titles", where the title is a little smaller in some languages than others, but that was much simpler than all the different spacing I have going on above. Everything that has different adjustments for each language is marked with ##. I feel it'd be much easier to change the whole screen depending on which language was active.

[Qlara]

I'm "stealing" the following more or less from the default Ren'Py help screen in screens.rpy (I just changed variable names) as I think it's similar to what you want.
There, the variables are set slightly differently, perhaps you could try that:

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#your button code ...# action SetScreenVariable("Language", "Russian")

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screen preferences():
    style_prefix "preferences"
    default Language = None
    vbox:
        ypos 40
        spacing 30
        # etc
        if Language == None:
            use preferences
        elif Language == "Russian":
            use russian_preferences
        elif Language == "French":
            use french_preferences
screen russian_preferences():
    vbox:
    	ypos 50
   	spacing 55
   	# etc
screen french_preferences():
    vbox:
    	ypos 50
   	spacing 55
   	# etc

You could make detailed screen definitions like that or let the other language screens inherit the style of the preference screen automatically and then add styles for those parameters you want to change like this:

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screen preferences():
    #...same as above...
screen russian_preferences():
    style_prefix "russian_preferences"
    vbox: # no further parameters for this vbox here
screen french_preferences():
    style_prefix "french_preferences"
    vbox: # no further parameters for this vbox here

style russian_preferences_vbox:
    ypos 50
    spacing 55
style french_preferences_vbox is russian_preferences_vbox # to inherit values from russian vbox, or (additionally)...
style french_preferences_vbox: #...to inherit everything that is not extra defined in the following block, to change individual values.
    spacing 60 # ypos 50 will be inherited from russian

[kivik]

Just noticed this:

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if Language == "None":

I think it needs to be:

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if Language == None:

[Qlara]

Yes, definitely, my mistake.
I fixed it.