Menus in the middle of my script

[notanumber]

I'm working on a screen for my game with a menu for the player to do some resource management, and then resume the normal flow.
I can get the screen to show up and all, but I'm having a hard time making the game flow not do anything while that screen is being displayed.
I tried something like:

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    show screen teamManager
    while exitConfirmation == False:
        pause 1

(hitting the done button on the screen sets the exitConfirmation variable to True)
not only am i getting an empty dialogue screen in the middle of the scene i want to display, but it crashes when i hit done.
Is there a way to just make the game flow "stay here and don't do anything until the player hits the 'Done!' button on the screen"?

And while we're at it, any way to disable pressing Esc to pull out the menu while the screen is displayed?

[Per K Grok]

I'm working on a screen for my game with a menu for the player to do some resource management, and then resume the normal flow.
I can get the screen to show up and all, but I'm having a hard time making the game flow not do anything while that screen is being displayed.
I tried something like:

Code: Select all

    show screen teamManager
    while exitConfirmation == False:
        pause 1

(hitting the done button on the screen sets the exitConfirmation variable to True)
not only am i getting an empty dialogue screen in the middle of the scene i want to display, but it crashes when i hit done.
Is there a way to just make the game flow "stay here and don't do anything until the player hits the 'Done!' button on the screen"?

And while we're at it, any way to disable pressing Esc to pull out the menu while the screen is displayed?

You could call the screen instead of showing it. You should in that case set the action of the 'Done'-button to 'Return'

call screen teamManager

textbutton "Done" action Return


On the Esc question you can read on how to add and remove keys from the keymap here:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/keymap.h ... ht=keymaps

[notanumber]

Calling the screen worked, so thanks!
Unfortunately "action Return" isn't. I worked around it with
textbutton "Done" action [Hide("teamManager"), Jump(nextlabel)]
which isn't elegant but gets the job done.

[Imperf3kt]

You should use action Return(), because otherwise you are still within the new context. You need to pop the call stack... Something something

This is getting into territory I'm only vaguely familiar with, but basically you should use Return(), not hide.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/label.ht ... -statement