Completely lost trying to make a frame with a scrollbar

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Completely lost trying to make a frame with a scrollbar

#1 Post by GeeSeki »

I searched around and tried to learn as much as I can but I'm still lost with this.

I'm trying to achieve a few things but I have no idea how.

This is my code at the moment.

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screen scr_mybedroompc_changelog:
    vbox xalign 0.5 yalign -0.2:
        frame:
            side ("c r"):
                area (5, 5, 1500, 800)
                viewport id "changelog_list":
                    draggable True mousewheel True
                    text "This is my text."
                vbar value YScrollValue("changelog_list")
        null height 1000
And it gives me this result:

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1. How do I get rid of the background so it's basically transparent and only shows the text and the scrollbar? I want to use my own PNG background.

2. How do I even create lines of dialogue?

When I try this, it does not work. It gives me an error and crashes the game:

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text "This is my text.\n
      This is my text on line 2.\n
      This is my text on line 3."
3. What does null height and viewport id even do?

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Re: Completely lost trying to make a frame with a scrollbar

#2 Post by Imperf3kt »

A null is an empty object. If you specify a height of 1000, then you are essentially putting in a blank area of 1000 pixels.

Instead of a frame, you might consider a vpgrid, which is easier to use in my opinion.
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