Renpy - Applying different styles of dialogue box for dialogues in the dialogue's line of code.

[Strobot]

So here is the code for the different dialogue box styles in screen.rpy the one is used for regular character dialog and another for any kind of input dialog

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style window:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    background Image("gui/gui_textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
    
    
 style input_window:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    background Image("gui/gui_textbox_narr.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

So for the pov dialog the games uses dialogue window style - textbox.png
and for dialogues which are not affiliated to any character it also uses the same dialogue window style - textbox.png . And here is code for that

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# for dialog affiliated with characters 
pov " Hello world"
# for dialog affiliated with no characters
"Hello world"

So here is what i want to do :--
I want to use gui_textbox_narr.png for dialog affiliated with no characters, there any way to code in to the specified dialogue box style right next to the dialogue
like

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"Hello World",style = use input_window

Any help from the community would help me immensely in developing my game . Thank you in advance.

Here is some images to help you understand the dialogue box image properly
https://imgur.com/a/fkYi20I


1) This the image for dialog box affiliated with characters

2) This the image that i want to use for dialog box affiliated with no characters and also for the input dialog .

3) I want to replace the dialog box (which is style window) for this dialogue with style input_window .

[kostek00]

You can use special character "narrator" for that "define narrator = Character(None, window_background="gui_textbox_narr.png")".
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/store_va ... r-narrator
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... characters
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... #Character

[Strobot]

You can use special character "narrator" for that "define narrator = Character(None, window_background="gui_textbox_narr.png")".
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/store_va ... r-narrator
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... characters
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... #Character

Thank you, i never though of creating a new character , but nonetheless this was very helpful

[kostek00]

It's not quite like you are creating new character. Narrator is by default created by renpy itself and all you do is attach additional options to it. Writing "narrator "some dialog"" is the same as writing dialog line without writing name of character before it.