Variable menus with lots of options

[Pajama Pudding]

Say I have a menu. The options in that menu are variable, i.e. if Flag A == True, menu option A will appear. At a given point in time, there might be zero associated flags set to True, or there might be as many as 15. If the latter case, there would be far too many menu options to appear on the screen. The most obvious solution, then, would be to have Ren'py execute code to increment a "Counter" variable +1 upward each time a menu option is displayed. If the Counter reaches a certain integer value (e.g. if Counter == 7), it would trigger the game to display an eighth menu option for "More". Clicking on "More" would jump to another label within the scenario, where a second menu would be triggered, displaying the options which were not flagged as having been displayed the first time around. A "spillover" menu, so to speak.

But this only works if there's a way to have Ren'py add flags on or between menu items... Which, I don't know if there is.

If there's a way to do this, or a better way, please let me know.

[Imperf3kt]

You may be better off making a custom screen with the options on it as buttons.

On a personal note: this idea sounds terrible.
I recently bought a commercial VN with similar design and I've almost run out of save slots just getting halfway through one route! There were so many choices that I don't even remember what prompted most of them.
I hate too many choices.

[4listair]

Coooould you write it as a call screen instead of an ordinary choice menu and then just add a viewport scroll?

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screen choices(xinitial=0.0, yinitial=0.0):
    viewport:
        xinitial yinitial
        scrollbars "vertical"
        mousewheel True
        draggable True
        pagekeys True

        side_yfill True

        vbox:
            if flag_a:
                textbutton _("Flag A.") action Jump("label_a")
            if flag_b:
                textbutton _("Flag B.") action Jump("label_b")
            textbutton _("No flag.") action Jump("no_flag")

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label start:

"1."

$ flag_a = False
$ flag_b = False

"2."

menu:
    "Set flag A.":
        $ flag_a = True
        jump ch
    "Set flag B.":
        $ flag_b = True
        jump ch

label ch:
call screen choices

label label_a:
"A."
jump start

label label_b:
"B."
jump start

label no_flag:
"Nothing."
jump start

return

Something like this, maybe, just with more options?

[philat]

Or just add a viewport to the choice screen.