How to limit save slots?

[Purple_dia]

The default game model created by Renpy has an infinite amount of save slots and 6 autosave and quicksave. My main goal is to limit the manual save slots to only 6 in 1 page, as opposed to 6 saves per unlimited pages.

So, in the gui I have by default
define gui.file_slot_cols = 3
define gui.file_slot_rows = 2 which puts me nicely at 6 slots per page.

I have been trying for the past hour so limit the number of pages by different methods :
define gui.file_slot_pages = 1
define gui.file_slot_pages = max(1)
define gui.file_slot_pages = (max = 1)
define Filepagenext = (max = 1) and several other functions but none have worked. I'm not sure how to proceed. Any ideas?

[Imperf3kt]

You can just remove the paging system from the file_slots screen. No need to fiddle with max saves if you only want one page - remove the ability to go to page 2, 3, 4 etc, and the player only has access to the save slots on the first page.

Just be sure to leave a way to access the quick load and quick save and maybe automatic saves/loads screens.


Removing the ability to save and limiting it to six is quite the unpopular thing to do, are you absolutely sure you should do this?

[Purple_dia]

You can just remove the paging system from the file_slots screen. No need to fiddle with max saves if you only want one page - remove the ability to go to page 2, 3, 4 etc, and the player only has access to the save slots on the first page.

Just be sure to leave a way to access the quick load and quick save and maybe automatic saves/loads screens.


Removing the ability to save and limiting it to six is quite the unpopular thing to do, are you absolutely sure you should do this?

I'm not sure what lines I should write to remove the ability to go to further pages. Could you please give me an example?

I am not going to completely remove quicksave and autosave. I just want to limit the number of manual saves, since I think that for the particular game I have in mind anything more than that would be excessive. In any case, even if I decide to increase the number of saves allotted, I still think it'll be useful to know how to do this.

Thank you for the response!

[rayminator]

In screen.rpy look for

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## range(1, 10) gives the numbers from 1 to 9.
                for page in range(1, 10):
                    textbutton "[page]" action FilePage(page)

then where the [textbutton and for] is just put this ## in front of textbutton it will cancel it out

it should look like this

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## range(1, 10) gives the numbers from 1 to 9.
                ##for page in range(1, 10):
                    ##textbutton "[page]" action FilePage(page)

[IrinaLazareva]

the same code (for one page):

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                ## range(1, 10) gives the numbers from 1 to 9.
                for page in range(1, 2):
                    textbutton "[page]" action FilePage(page)

                textbutton _(">") action FilePageNext(max=1)

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_a ... lePageNext