flashing dialogue window with sprite dissolve

[Preludian]

Hi,

I noticed that everytime I change a sprite (with dissolve) that the dialog window always disappears for a short moment and then reappears after the sprite is rendered. And I don't like this flashing of the window. Is there a way to keep dissolves (to better fade between two mimics) but also get rid of the flashing dialog window?

[PyTom]

Yes, use:

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window show

to keep the window shown, and

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window hide

to hide it again.

[mugenjohncel]

Hmm... this is very relevant to my needs...

I'm gonna do a follow-up

How and where do I write this and does it allow transition?... (You know... make dialogue windows dissapear with dissolve)

"POOF" (Disappears)

[PyTom]

You can do:

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window show dissolve

and

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window hide dissolve

There are also a pair of config variables that control it (I forget the names, offhand).

[Preludian]

Works like a charm, thanks very much.

Do you know of a way how to add transitions to side images?

[EvilDragon]

What do you mean by "side images"?

[Preludian]

What do you mean by "side images"?

The little images inside the window, also called Avatars I think.

[kag_kins]

PyTom, do you think you could look up the config variables? I'm not sure where you're supposed to put the code you posted, and it'd be cumbersome to use with every image anyway.

There was a section on showing and hiding the window in the cookbook, but I couldn't get the transitions to work right.

Thanks in advance!

[PyTom]

They are config.window_show_transition and config.window_hide_transition.

[kag_kins]

Er, I got an error message saying that 'config.window_show_transition is not a known configuration variable.'

I'm using Renpy 6.8- is this a really new variable, or something?

[PyTom]

Yes, this was added in 6.9.1.

[kag_kins]

Ah. Off to go download, then...