[SOLVED] Defining a bespoke python function to render screen text

[thirstyoctopus]

Hi guys

I'm having a bit of a problem with this one. I have a screen in my game which is basically an open notepad with the main character's notes in. I want to use a specific font for these notes but I don't want to have constantly define the font within the text statement, which is what I had done:

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text _("{font=Fonts/JandaEverydayCasual.ttf}My text goes here{/font}")

so, I wrote a python function to call when I need to write notebook text, which included the size and font, which I decided to define in gui.rpy:

gui.rpy:

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define gui.notebook_text_font = "Fonts/JandaEverydayCasual.ttf"

screens.rpy:

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init python:
    def nbText(message):
        return text message size 18 font gui.notebook_text_font

then in my notepad screen, I'd simply pass the text through the function:

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$ nbText("I think she likes me!")

But I keep getting a syntax error within the function where I'm returning the text. Am I even doing this correctly? It's very hard to find any examples online, and I've kind of been referencing some code in another game but unfortunately there's nothing that actually does what I'm trying to do. I also need to define the color come to think of it ....

[thirstyoctopus]

OK I managed to solve it!

Instead of using a function I define some style properties like so:

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style notebook_text:
    ypos 18
    line_spacing 12
    font gui.notebook_text_font
    size 18
    color "#666666"

then, in my notebook screen I simply used the style prefix:

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style prefix "notebook"

And then wrote text such as:

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text "Here are some cool scripty notes!"

And it worked! So, I guess it wasn't so complicated after all! Hope this helps someone, maybe...

[thirstyoctopus]

Sorry I meant style_prefix, not style prefix.