Choices display issue [SOLVED]

[Mistexpi]

I have this weird thing going on, probably since I've updated Ren'Py to its latest version (6.99.14.3.3347).
Well, I've never encountered this before, and my games' choices were displaying perfectly.

But now after deleting a game's persistent data, the first time I'll launch that game, all choices will appear all condensed like this :


Then, if I simply reload the game (through the dev' console) or relaunch it, they'll appear like they have to be :


It's the same case for other people who have tried that game on their computers.

I also tried to launch some older games of mine after deleting their persistent data too, and the same thing happened :




After reload/relaunch :




The choices were displayed correctly at the time I released those games (around last year for the lastest one).
I wonder if it has to do with the new GUI thing ? I'm currently using the older code, I planned to switch to the new one later

Also, that problem only occurs when I've placed my choices in the textbox.
I've tried my older games where they are simply in the middle of the screen, and one where they are slighty positionned to the right, and everything is ok, even after deleting persistent data.
The rest of the text doesn't have this problem.


Here is the code I use to show choices in the textbox :

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screen choice:

    window:
        style "menu_window"
        xalign 0.77
        ypos 830

        vbox:
            style "menu"
            spacing 2

            for caption, action, chosen in items:

                if action:

                    button:
                        action action
                        style "menu_choice_button"

                        text caption style "menu_choice"

                else:
                    text caption style "menu_caption"

init -2 python:
    config.narrator_menu = True

    style.menu_window.set_parent(style.default)
    style.menu_choice.clear()
    style.menu_choice_button.set_parent(style.button)
    style.menu_choice_button.xminimum = int(config.screen_width * 0.52)
    style.menu_choice_button.xmaximum = int(config.screen_width * 0.52)
    #style.menu_choice.text_align = 0.0
    style.menu_choice.xpos = 20
    style.menu_choice.color = "#fbbdb6"
    
    style.menu_choice.hover_color = "#fff"
    style.menu_choice.hover_italic = True
    
    style.menu_choice_button.background = Frame("button_idle_choix.png", 5, 5, -30, -30)
    style.menu_choice_button.hover_background = Frame("button_hover_choix.png", 5, 5, -30, -30)

I have to say, the possible link between persistent data and choices' display really leave me perplexed :v
Thanks in advance for your attention !

[Ocelot]

Try to add style.rebuild() at init -1 python or higher.

Any reason you do not use style statements instead of manipulating style objects directly?

[Mistexpi]

About style objects, I guess it's because I learned it that way and took the habit to always do it like this... D:
I'll make sure to look more into style statements, then, it seems practical !

I tried adding style.rebuild() but it didn't changed anything buuuttt I did solved my problem with the following steps... guess you sometimes need the right inspiration or something like this

So first, I tried to create a style for the menu window, to see what it would change, this is the previous code :

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    window:
        style "menu_window"
        xalign 0.77
        ypos 830

and the new one

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style choix_wind:
    xpos 700
    ypos 830

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    window:
        style "choix_wind"

After this, when deleting persistent data and launching the game, the choices would stay condensed but at least they were aligned were they had to be, and not to the right anymore, which was a good start.


Then, I remembered this part :

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    style.menu_choice_button.xminimum = int(config.screen_width * 0.52)
    style.menu_choice_button.xmaximum = int(config.screen_width * 0.52)

and tried replacing it by this :

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    style.menu_choice_button.xminimum = 1050
    style.menu_choice_button.xmaximum = 1050

and hurrah !!!
Now it's working, the choices aren't condensed anymore even after deleting persistent data !
I tried it on another computer to, and it works nicely.

I... honestly don't even remember why I used it like this instead of simply putting a precise size...
Thanks for the quick help and inspiration, I was becoming desperate with this situation :')

[Ocelot]

BY the way, what is the prioryty of code which sets config.screen_width variable? If there is nothing stting it directly, it might be initialized by gui.init() call. IN any case, it seems that it is set after you use it to calculate minimum width. So it defaults to 0, resulting in 0 after calculation, which meant "determine automatically" which defaults to "maximum possible size". If you save and load, it will use saved variables to init button width, so it works properly.

[Mistexpi]

Oooh yeah, I see !
I understand better where all of this comes from, now, that's nice !

config.screen_width is declared under

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init -1 python hide