How to change choice menu gui dynamically

[apexchimps]

Hi,

We are trying unsuccessfully to change the choice menu gui dynamically. Basically we want the color of the choice buttons to change depending on the character, so the user can play with more than one character, and the gui changes depending on which character you have selected.

We know how to change the background color (black in the screenshot), by replacing the choice_idle_background.png file, but we can only do it once before compiling the game, and not once the game has started.



Any advice?

Thank you in advance!

[PyTom]

7.1.4 has a new feature, menu arguments, that will be perfect for this. First off, you're going to want to change the say screen in your game to read:

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screen choice(items, button="choice"):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption:
                action i.action
                background "gui/button/{}_idle_background.png".format(button)
                hover_background "gui/button/{}_hover_background.png".format(button)

Once that's done, you can then pass the button argument to the menu.

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menu (button="sylvie"):
     "To ask her right away.":
         pass
     "To ask her later.":
         pass

Remember, this needs the prerelease to work.

[apexchimps]

That would be... perfect! I didn't see the prerelease. You are one week ahead! Thank you!

[Imperf3kt]

didn't see the prerelease

It only came out a few hours earlier, it's unlikely you would have.