[Solved] Having trouble hiding screens and images automatically during choice menu

[Hiddenwall]

I have a screen and some images that I want to hide temporarily whenever I show the options for the choice menu and then reappear once you have selected a choice. Is there anyway to do this? I've tried looking into tags and it causes one screen to vanish but then I have to show back all the screens manually. My images are also layered images and for some reason I can't get the tag to work on there either.

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init:
    screen hud_bottom:
        tag switch
        imagemap:
            idle "gui/hud_bottom.png"
            hotspot (1013, 513, 148, 49) action ShowMenu("history") activate_sound "sfx/click.ogg"
            hotspot (1184, 512, 49, 50) action HideInterface()

The choice screen is all unchanged other than adding in the tag switch to it.

[Hiddenwall]

Anyone?

[gas]

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"
    on "show" action Hide("hud_bottom")
    on "hide" action Show("hud_bottom")
    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action

...and thanks for all the fish.

[Hiddenwall]

Thank you for responding!

So far this doesn't seem to be doing anything. The hud_bottom screen still stays up when the choice menu appears and after I have selected a choice, the choice screen remains up. If I move forward to another choice it does the same thing, only the choices change but still stay up on the screen as well allowing me to click on them indefinitely. I have tried messing around with it to the best of my own ability with the tags removed and still nothing.

[Alex]

What's the actual code you are using (the part that shows hud_bottom screen and choices menu and some lines around this part of code)?

[Hiddenwall]

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"
    on "show" action Hide("hud_bottom", dissolve)
    on "hide" action Show("hud_bottom", dissolve)
    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action
    add "choice_screen.png"

This is the code that I now have for the choice screen with the added actions for hide and show.

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init:
    screen hud_bottom:
        imagemap:
            idle "gui/hud_bottom.png"
            hotspot (1013, 513, 148, 49) action ShowMenu("history") activate_sound "sfx/click.ogg"
            hotspot (1184, 512, 49, 50) action HideInterface()

And the actual code for the screen itself.

[philat]

I probably wouldn't bother with show/hide and use a variable to toggle the transform alpha between 1 and 0 instead.

[Hiddenwall]

I probably wouldn't bother with show/hide and use a variable to toggle the transform alpha between 1 and 0 instead.

Like have it trigger a flag on menu show that causes the screen to change alpha depending if the flag is true or not?
Like this?

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init:
    screen hud_bottom:
        if hud_bottom_alpha:
            imagemap:
                idle "gui/hud_bottom.png"
                hotspot (1013, 513, 148, 49) action ShowMenu("history") activate_sound "sfx/click.ogg"
                hotspot (1184, 512, 49, 50) action HideInterface()
        else:
            null

It seems to work when I manually switch the variable but I'm not certain how to get it to be automated when the choice screen is active. I thought this might be it but it's not.

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init:
    $ hud_bottom_alpha = True

screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"
    on "show" action SetVariable("hud_bottom_alpha", False)
    on "hide" action SetVariable("hud_bottom_alpha", True)
    $ hud_bottom_alpha = False
    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action
    add "choice_screen.png"

[philat]

It should work. Maybe try adding replace, replaced (same as on show and hide).

[Hiddenwall]

It should work. Maybe try adding replace, replaced (same as on show and hide).

Oh! That did it! Not certain which one is working but having all four of them in there did it! Thank you so much!
Now if I can get this to also work on images and sprites I will be good to go, but seeing how this part is finally done I think I might be able to figure that out.