Not a Displayable Error When Using Custom Function

[Poorman65]

I'm trying to take some repetitive stuff and break it out into reusable pieces. I have tried a few different approaches but the current one is to write functions that will take care of multiple steps. Unfortunately I am get an error on what I expected would be a straight forward first step.

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File-MyScreens.rpy

screen timedDisplay(timerLen, *displayables):
    zorder 1000
    for displayablesName in displayables:
        add displayablesName
    timer timerLen action Hide("timedDisplay") repeat False
    key "dismiss" action [[]]

And in MyFunctions.rpy I've defined a function which calls the Screen as follows:

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File - MyFunctions.rpy

init python:
    def showTimedDisplayables(timerLen, *displayables):
        renpy.show_screen("timedDisplay", timerLen, displayables)

In my script.rpy file I have the following

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        image Riley Riley_Look = "Ch 01/Assets/Overlays/Vixens/Riley/Riley - Looked - Reaction.png"
        $ renpy.show_screen("timedDisplay", 2, "Riley Riley_Look")
        "..."
        $ showTimedDisplayables(2, "Riley Riley_Look")
        "..."

For some reason it works fine in the first case when the show_screen is called directly. But in the second case when I call the function and have it relay the call to the show_screen, I get an error saying "Exception: Not a displayable:(u'Riley Riley_Look',)"

[kivik]

How weird!

Not sure what causes it but basically "Riley Riley_Look" got turned into a unicode string when being parsed through showTimedDisplayables().

I managed to fix it with this:

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add "%s" % displayablesName

[Poorman65]

Awesome! That works perfectly! Thank you!!

I was hitting errors with some of the other approaches that I tried where it was complaining about Unicode Strings down deep in the APIs. May be a similar solution in those cases.

One of things I was trying to do was to create my own Statements to handle these patterns. Maybe I'll be able to have it working both with a Statement and a Function like the Renpy stuff does.