[Solved, but open to advice] Moving the scene with an onscreen button.

[solarProtag]

Hi there!

I'm currently working on figuring out a point and click system for my game and everything is going well, except that I'm having trouble with showing the rest of the screen. What I want is for a button on my screen to slide the background a direction and then have more places to click on in the newly accessible side of the screen. (The best example I can give is the Ace Attorney games and how you can click a → or ← button to move the screen over).

If anyone can lend a hand I'd appreciate it, thanks!

[Per K Grok]

Hi there!

I'm currently working on figuring out a point and click system for my game and everything is going well, except that I'm having trouble with showing the rest of the screen. What I want is for a button on my screen to slide the background a direction and then have more places to click on in the newly accessible side of the screen. (The best example I can give is the Ace Attorney games and how you can click a → or ← button to move the screen over).

If anyone can lend a hand I'd appreciate it, thanks!

You could do something like this,

With the button you jump to a label.
There you hide the screen you use to be able to click on stuff.
Move the background to the new position.
Show a screen with clickable areas for the new position.

There might be something useful to you in this cookbook thread
viewtopic.php?f=51&t=53333#p502719

[solarProtag]

Huh, I suppose that's a way I could do it.

Hopefully one day the ability to add ATL statements to a button gets added to renpy, but until then I suppose I'll use the label method.
That thread also looks pretty promising, so I'll check it out, thanks!

[philat]

You can use ATL statements on a button/screens in general. Nonetheless, it's simpler to do the label thing if you don't want to go through the hassle of doing it purely in screens.

[solarProtag]

I actually tried to figure out how to use atl with a button but the regular button action statement doesn't accept that, only for showing a screen's transition and the like.

As an aside, laying out my labels like this:

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label A:
	show bg at left with move

	call screen pointnclick
	pause

with a label for each direction (left, middle, right) works since it takes the bg I have in that scene, I just need to figure out how to not need each of those labels for every point n click screen I have in my game (for calling the previous screen again).

[philat]

Dunno what you were doing, but all you have to do is show the relevant screen.

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screen testatl(xpos=0.5):
    hbox:
        textbutton "<" action Show("testatl", xpos=0.25)
        textbutton ">" action Show("testatl", xpos=0.75)

    add Solid("#FFF", xysize=(50,50)) at atl(xpos)

transform atl(xpos):
    linear 0.5 xpos xpos
    
label start:
    show screen testatl
    pause