Ren'Py 7.3.0 Released

[PyTom]

I'm pleased to announce the release of Ren'Py 7.3.0, the first release of Ren'Py with support for running on the web platform, inside a web browser supporting HTML 5, Web Assembly, and WebGL. Right now, this support is in beta, as it's limited by the capabilities of the web platform itself, but it's suitable for making web demos of Ren'Py games.

In addition to that, this release adds many new features to Ren'Py. These include:

• Many improvements to creator-defined statements, allowing the parsing of Ren'Py statements and block, the catching of errors, and the ability to execute a second function after Ren'Py in the body of a statement has finished.
• Screen language improvements, like the ability to capture screen language displayables into a variable and to use a property to determine if a screen is sensitive to input.
• Text improvements, with self-closing text tags and the ability to control the capitalization of interpolated text.
• Mobile platforms now support non-rectangular focus masks, and 64-bit Android is supported in time for the Google Play deadline.
• There is a new Turkish translation of the launcher and Spanish translation of the tutorial game, while several of the other translations have been updated.

There are also a number of other changes, so check out the changelog for all of what's new.

Downloads of 7.3.0 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.3.0

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

[Elta]

Oh wow, that's cool to know! Thank you for working so hard on this program! I love it so much!

So to update from the old version, do I need to do anything special? Like do I need to uninstall the old version first. I'm guessing I should also move my games out of the renpy folder for save keeping before I update? (Sorry if these questions seem dumb, I know very little about how programs work, until this month I've only even used a few art programs and firefox. xD)

[Imperf3kt]

Just open the launcher and press the update button.
You may need to redowmload other packages such as RAPT, at least, I always do.


Thanks again PyTom for all the wonderful updates!
This release is especially awesome.

[Elta]

Just open the launcher and press the update button.
You may need to redowmload other packages such as RAPT, at least, I always do.


Thanks again PyTom for all the wonderful updates!
This release is especially awesome.

Thank you so much for the help! I didn't realize that was there!

[tiya_nofurita]

Cool! How do we customized pre-loading screen on web version, is there any documentation about it?

[Imperf3kt]

Cool! How do we customized pre-loading screen on web version, is there any documentation about it?

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=52015&start=60#p512138

This post and the reply directly after it may be what you are looking for.

[tiya_nofurita]

Ah, thanks. I just got a reply myself from discord (it's much faster there lol)
The link is : https://renpy.beuc.net/

[Tayruu]

I've encountered a weird behaviour with my file screen, and I'm not sure if this is resolved with a new function or not.

The save/load screen has hovered and unhovered elements in the save slots, both of which use SetScreenVariable to set an active_save variable, to display expanded information in an infobox.

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hovered [SetScreenVariable("active_save", slot)]
unhovered [SetScreenVariable("active_save", None)]

I was finding for some reason that upon hover/screen update, the save file buttons were having their data set to the last slot on the current page. If pages were changed, slots which weren't used would reset for a moment. The files themselves still load and show infobox data correctly, but the save name, time, and index on the buttons themselves are not correct.

... so I messed around with the default file_slot screen to compare things, and eventually found the problem resolves if I add () to the end of my screen name. (screen file_picker():). But this stops the SetScreenVariable function from executing...?