Hotspot Function problem

[Rufus]

I made few hotspots

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 hotspot (707, 276, 94, 78) clicked Jump("notfound")
 hotspot (121, 238, 265, 168) clicked Jump("notfound")
 if found == False:
     hotspot (453, 163, 92, 170) clicked Jump("found")
 hotspot (244, 145, 138, 107) clicked Jump("notfound")
 

And my goal is to show text "There is nothing" and one of them should show "You found xxx" and add item to inventory

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$inventory.append("item")

I figure out how to do it with labels... but I feel like its not good option.
example

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label notfound:
           player "There is nothing"
           call screen hotspots_example
         label found:
           player "Yea I found something"
           $inventory.append("item")
           $found = True
           call screen hotspots_example
        

I stuck with this problem tried to do Function(renpy.say(player,"text)), Function(text("something")) etc...

[gas]

Show another screen that receive parameters, not call a function.
Anyway using labels is not entirely wrong.

[Milkymalk]

As long as it works, it works. Nothing wrong with using labels.

If you prefer the looks of a screen, you could do it like this:

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screen search(message):
    text "You found "+message+"." xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
    if message == 'nothing':
        button /blahblahbuttonstuff/ action Hide('search') # I can't do buttons without looking them up ;)
    else:
        button /blahblahbuttonstuff/ action [Hide('search'), Jump('foundit')]
        
label foundit:
    $inventory.append("item")
    $found = True
    # do stuff

[Rufus]

Thanks guys for quick respond.
I will use screen with parameter.

[Rufus]

I made it but I got 2 question

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screen search(message):
    text "You found "+message+"." xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5

is there any way to make looks like dialog box ?
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text "You found "+message+".

I saw three methods of connection variables with text and I'm curious which is the best or maybe which I have to use in a specific case.
Example of what I mean:

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"text %(var)s text"

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"text [var]" 

and now from your code

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"text" + var 

[kivik]

You're better off using a label as your originally intended instead of a screen if you want it to look like a dialogue box.

In terms of the variables, there's no one best way - it depends on your situation really.

The first one I didn't even know exists (not very experienced with python) looks really useful, but I think you'll have issues using list / dict indexes with it.
The third one overcomes the issue because you can do "text" + var["index"] without problems.


The second one ("text [var]") is Renpy specific, which has a very cool effect. It interpolates the variable at the point of displaying on screen, which means you can actually put variables into a string like that when the values aren't set yet - so long as they're set when Renpy renders them. An example is during image declarations.

However, the flip side is, if you put a string together like that expecting to output said value, then change the variable before / whilst displaying it, Renpy will update it to the latest value. It's a problem in very specific situations and someone had encountered it in their code on this forum before - so just bear that in mind.

[Rufus]

Thanks again mate.
Could you tell me one more thing if I do it on labels

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label notfound:
              *something*
              call screen hotspots
          label found:
           *something* 
           call screen hotspots

Should I end label with "call screen hotspots" or is there any other option to loop that.