Keeping text box on screen during transitions and toggling between say screens

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

This is a little complicated as I'm doing many things at once, but please bear with me...

I have an animated text box for most of my game. As this can sometimes be annoying, I also have the default one which I use when the same character continues talking. In my game, the characters' dialogue boxes are in different locations on the screen, so the animation works well going between characters as it catches the eye, but unfortunately, it runs into issues...

Firstly, here's my code in screens.rpy:

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    if (sayscreen_label is not None):
        window at say_window_animation:
            id "window"

            if who is not None:

                window:
                    id "namebox"
                    style "namebox"
                    text who id "who"

            text what id "what" at text_fade_in
            
    else:
        window:
            id "window"

            if who is not None:

                window:
                    id "namebox"
                    style "namebox"
                    text who id "who"

            text what id "what"

This is what the animation is doing:

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transform say_window_animation:
    crop_relative True
    alpha 0 crop (0,0, 0.0, 1.0)
    linear 0.15 crop (0,0, 0.3, 1.0)
    linear 0.25 alpha 1.0 crop(0,0, 1.0, 1.0 )

transform text_fade_in:
    alpha 0
    linear 1 alpha 1

In script.rpy, I have:

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default sayscreen_label = None

..and I use "$ sayscreen_label = "on"" and "$ sayscreen_label = None" when I want to switch the animation on and off. It works, but when a character sprite is changing at the same time, the text box disappears and reappears. Trying "window show" doesn't seem to help.

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    show katie_fall fun
    with dissolve
    
    k "First character is talking..." (window_style="window_tall_s1_fall") # same character, same dialogue box

    $ sayscreen_label = None
    
    window show # doesn't appear to work
    hide katie_fall fun
    with dissolve
    
    k "... and is still talking." (window_style="window_tall_s1_fall") # same character, same dialogue box
    
    $ sayscreen_label = "on"
    
    show katie_fall close
    with dissolve
    
    m "Now, the other character is talking." (window_style="window_wide_bottom_middle") # different character, different dialogue box

So, the middle string displays as it's suppose to (with no animation), but the window disappears after the first string, plays the character transition, then shows the second string.

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Another issue I have is when I use pauses in strings, like "{w=1}". The say screen animation repeats when there's a pause unless I switch it off with "$ sayscreen_label = None", but I only want to use this for when the same character is talking. I'd like the initial animation to still show, but not have it repeat whenever there's a pause. Is there a way to do a pause that doesn't break this?

Thanks for any help!

FYI, I'm using this format for strings "(window_style="window_tall_s1_fall")" instead of defining characters as I'm doing a comic book-style VN and the dialogue boxes move around a LOT!

[Kinmoku]

Bump.

Does anyone have any ideas? I've edited the original post to make it a little clearer to understand.

[IrinaLazareva]

It works, but when a character sprite is changing at the same time, the text box disappears and reappears. Trying "window show" doesn't seem to help.

Perhaps, it is the result of "imposing" (the conflict between) of transition and transfrom.
Try to replace dissolve transition to transform.
Instead of:

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    $ sayscreen_label = "on"
    show katie_fall close         <<<<  
    with dissolve                     <<<<
    m "Now, the other character is talking." (window_style="window_wide_bottom_middle") # different character, different dialogue box

to something like this

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    $ sayscreen_label = "on"
    show katie_fall at mydissolve
    
    m "Now, the other character is talking." (window_style="window_wide_bottom_middle") # different character, different dialogue box

Where:

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transform mydissolve(x=.5, y=1.0, t=1):
    align(x,y)
    alpha .0
    ease t alpha 1.0

On the second question I can't help. Probably, will need to create some condition (?) of elimination of tags in the say's screen.

[Kinmoku]

It works, but when a character sprite is changing at the same time, the text box disappears and reappears. Trying "window show" doesn't seem to help.

Perhaps, it is the result of "imposing" (the conflict between) of transition and transfrom.
Try to replace dissolve transition to transform.

Thanks. I'll try this and see if it works.

On the second question I can't help. Probably, will need to create some condition (?) of elimination of tags in the say's screen.

This gives me a good idea of where to start, though. I'll see if I can figure anything out