[Solved] Trouble with Money Overlay

[renpyuseranon]

I'm copying several snippets of code from this thread viewtopic.php?t=5373 into my own project and trying to get it to work. It's for an overlay that displays your current money, and can be hidden/shown when necessary. My code reads:

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init python:
    show_lion_cash = False

    def show_money_overlay():
        if show_lion_cash:
            cash_widget = Text( str(lioncash) );
            ui.at( Position(xalign=.9, yalign=.9) );
            ui.add(cash_widget);

    config.overlay_functions.append(show_money_overlay);

    def show_money():
        show_lion_cash = True;

    def hide_money():
        show_lion_cash = False;

Later on I test it with this:

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    $ lioncash = 100

    $ show_money()
    "Cash is shown."
    $ hide_money()
    "Cash is hidden."

In game, nothing happens. There's no error message, but the currency doesn't appear either. I've reread the code multiple times and can't figure out why it's not working. One thing of note - the thread I'm using is from 2009: could it be possible that the code has become obsolete over time?

[Alex]

Try to use screens - they were made to show stuff in more convinient way.

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default lioncash = 100

screen money_scr():
    text "[lioncash]" size 35 align (0.9, 0.9)

label start:
    scene black
    show screen money_scr
    "..."
    $ lioncash  += 50
    "Hey, what do we got here?.."
    hide screen money_scr
    "Better not to show vallet here..."
    "?"

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/index.html
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

[renpyuseranon]

Damn, I just learned all about screens and yet it didn't occur to me to use one for this. Thanks man, that's super clean and simple.