Easiest way to change textbox colour? [SOLVED]

[AsHLeX]

Hi everyone! Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this!
As the title says, I've been trying to figure out the best way to change the textbox colour from red to grayscale for use in certain scenes.
So what I did was define a new grayscale image via:

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image textbox gray = im.MatrixColor(
    "gui/textbox.png",
    im.matrix.desaturate() * im.matrix.tint(1.0, 1.0, 1.0))

And then... I've tried the following but they all seem to have problems:

OPTION 1:
Defining a new textbox via:

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init:
    $ narrator = Character(None, window_background="textbox gray", window_height=278, window_xalign=0.5, window_yalign=1.0)

But I can't seem to get the textbox to be in the right position (image reference below):

it keeps sticking in the lower left corner

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OPTION 2:
Tried defining a grayscaletext variable as false and then inserting this line of code into the style window:

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style window:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    if grayscaletext:
        background Image("textbox gray", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0) 
    else: 
        background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

This just brings up an error, so I guess we can't use variables in styles?

OPTION 3:
I tried inserting the grayscaletext variable into screen say but that just turned into a mess and I was having the textbox appearing and disappearing at random times:

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"
                
        else:
            if graytext:
                background Image("textbox gray", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
            else:
                background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

        text what id "what"

(Uploaded my .rpy files for reference if anyone needs them)

I'm at my wits end, would really really appreciate help!
Thanks again!

[deltadidirac]

Hi everyone! Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this!
As the title says, I've been trying to figure out the best way to change the textbox colour from red to grayscale for use in certain scenes.
So what I did was define a new grayscale image via:

Code: Select all

image textbox gray = im.MatrixColor(
    "gui/textbox.png",
    im.matrix.desaturate() * im.matrix.tint(1.0, 1.0, 1.0))

And then... I've tried the following but they all seem to have problems:

OPTION 1:
Defining a new textbox via:

Code: Select all

init:
    $ narrator = Character(None, window_background="textbox gray", window_height=278, window_xalign=0.5, window_yalign=1.0)

But I can't seem to get the textbox to be in the right position (image reference below):
screenshot0001.png
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OPTION 2:
Tried defining a grayscaletext variable as false and then inserting this line of code into the style window:

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style window:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    if grayscaletext:
        background Image("textbox gray", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0) 
    else: 
        background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

This just brings up an error, so I guess we can't use variables in styles?

OPTION 3:
I tried inserting the grayscaletext variable into screen say but that just turned into a mess and I was having the textbox appearing and disappearing at random times:

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"
                
        else:
            if graytext:
                background Image("textbox gray", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
            else:
                background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

        text what id "what"

(Uploaded my .rpy files for reference if anyone needs them)

I'm at my wits end, would really really appreciate help!
Thanks again!

Hi
if you want change the textbox in some dialogues (e.g. during the "narration" ) you must have first of all different images for each textbox you want to use....

in my game I use 3 textbox : the default one, and 2 others for the narration.
1) first, I create the 3 different images (the "default", "nar2", and "nar3")
2) I added and defined it in the correct folder ( in image folder in this case so I must write also the extension .png)
3) I defined the new narration characters as is:

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define n1 = Character(window_background="nar2.png", window_xpos=0.57, window_ypos=0.85, what_xpos= 0.15, what_ypos=0.5, what_size=22, what_font="TektonPro-BoldExt.otf") 
define n2 = Character(window_background="nar3.png", window_xpos=0.57, window_ypos=0.2, what_xpos= 0.15, what_ypos=0.5, what_size=22, what_font="TektonPro-BoldExt.otf")

As you can see in the definition at I start directly with "window_background.....", there is no name, so you will see only the textbox without a "name-box", only the dialogue.
You can copy my script and after adapt to yuor needs, for all it's run right.

see you

[AsHLeX]

Thank you so much, deltadidirac! That solved it!

[deltadidirac]

My pleasure,
happy for you