Show descriptive text in caption box when hovering over a menu choice

[unclepress]

I want to alter the menu screen in Ren'Py so that when the mouse hovers over an option, the dialog box at the bottom is updated with descriptive text about that choice. Here's a quick mockup of how I would want it to look.

This is the menu function from the standard 'screens.rpy' file

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action

So I'm thinking each item needs a "description" field (in addition to caption and action) and then something like...

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on_hover i:
	caption = i.description

...happens in the for loop.

This seems feasible since the buttons can easily change color on hover, but I just don't know how to actually implement it. Help is super appreciated!!!

[Nanahs]

Hi!! I found a tutorial of something similar to this. But it was for imagebutton, not menu.
I'm not really sure if this can help you someway, but give this video a look:
https://youtu.be/SDXG17W0cBA

Good luck.