Displaying a bespoke screen within the story

[thirstyoctopus]

I've done some research on this but I cannot find anything conclusive, as it seems that screens are somewhat limited, but I may be wrong.

There's a point in my story where I want a modal to pop up displaying some information that the main character has learned through making a specific choice previously. In this case, he's chosen to research information about coffee and then before the scene ends I'd like a screen to show saying something along the lines of "Here's what you learned..." etc. I tried creating a screen like so:

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screen coffee_info():
    modal True

    text "You learned some stuff about coffee!"

(Obviously this is just testing text) but I don't know how to activate it in-game. I don't think 'show screen coffee_info()' is a thing. Also, this is the last action before the scene ends, so I'd need the screen to appear and pause the gameplay until the user clicks it to go away and then the scene can move on.

Is there already a screen built in for displaying bespoke info, or is there a way I can make my own screen appear in-game?

[trooper6]

All screens can display bespoke info...that is what they do. Just put the info you want on the screen you made as in your example above...except you'll want to also include a button that closes the screen when clicked.

As for your desire to have a screen come up and pause the game until the user clicks on your close screen button that is also easy.
You don't need "modal True"
Rather than show screen coffee_info() --which is totally a thing, just use
call screen coffee_info()

Have you looked into the documentation on screen language?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_actions.html

[thirstyoctopus]

Thank you for the help - yes I'd seen the screen docs but not the screen actions which has helped a lot more!

[trooper6]

My pleasure!