[Solved!] Jumping to a screen from a label

[lacrimoosa]

I want to add a character selection screen in the game but I'm having problems jumping to it. Does anyone know what action to put in script.rpy in order to jump to a screen in the middle of the game?

I've tried this:

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w "where do you intend to go?"
jump screen("select")

and this:

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w "where do you intend to go?"
ShowMenu("select")

I've already made a character selection screen in screens.rpy, but I can't find the right syntax in order to pull up the menu mid-game

[Imperf3kt]

show screen or call screen
I'd go with call screen personally, but it depends on how you made your screen

[lacrimoosa]

Thank you, call does work the way I want it to! Is there a way to hide the screen with a transition statement once you use call? I had brought the screen up using "say" for a while and figured how to show and hide it with a transition, but I'm having trouble doing the same using "call"

This was my extreme workaround with say, but it is the only way I can get the dissolve

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scene black with Dissolve(1.0)
    $ renpy.pause(3.0)
    show screen select
    $ show_quick_menu = True
    $renpy.pause(3600.0)
    $ renpy.transition(dissolve)
label wendy:
    $ show_quick_menu = False
    $ renpy.transition(dissolve)
    hide screen select
    scene black

[Imperf3kt]

If you give your screen an action that returns a _Return, the scren will automatically close itself, which is why I mentioned it depends on your screen.

This is just something I've read in the documentation/forums. I haven't actually ecperimented with it myself, so am unable to guide you in it.

[lacrimoosa]

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, the action the screen does is purely start different routes, so I can't use the call statement I guess?

I'll be sure to remember it for the future though!

[Imperf3kt]

You do this via buttons, right?
You can add a Hide("screen name") to the action. Just put a comma between actions.

[lacrimoosa]

Sorry for the long-overdue response, but adding Hide("screen name) did end up working! To get the dissolve to work though, I still had to do a small workaround of adding a renpy.transition before and after showing the screen. The end result was this:

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$ renpy.transition(dissolve)
show screen select
$ renpy.transition(dissolve)

Thank you for your help on this issue!