[solved] redrawing the screen despite ui.interact

[kuroi]

Hello out there in Renpy Land~
I'm getting close to done on Kuroi Games newest project. Yay! It's a manga so I'm dealing with a few problems that I haven't run into before and I was hoping that there might be someone more tallented than myself out there who could give me a hand.

I have a loop which basicly runs like this:

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while result != "end":
    Draw_The_Page()
    _result = ui.interact()
    Handle_User_Input()

So, the code draws the page and then sits around waiting for the user to do something. However, I have an option in the preferences which allows the user to flip the page and read the manga either left to right (english style) or right to left (japanese style). Unfortunately, when the user clicks the option, Renpy still sits around waiting for ui.interact() to tell it that the user has done something before it will redraw the screen.

I have tried simply calling my Draw_The_Page() functon again when the button to change the read direction is pressed but renpy still waits for ui.interact() to tell it that there has been some user interaction before doing anything...

Is there any way to force Renpy to go past ui.interact() a single time so that the loop can redraw the screen?

Thanks a ton for the help~
Kuroi

[PyTom]

The easiest way would be to have a ui.timer break you out of the interact once in a while.

[kuroi]

Thanks so much~
I used the ui.timer to break me out but it ended up making the vbar on my image map flash but it let me in the right direction and I solved it by calling:
$ renpy.jump_out_of_context ("loop")
inside of the code called when the button is pressed and that works just fine!

Thanks again~ I may have been stuck forever without your help. =)