Formatting the choice menu buttons?

[ForeverAScone]

I've been looking around all over but haven't been able to find a good guide or anything for changing/formatting the choice menu buttons. For one particular scene, I'd like to have the choice buttons down at the bottom of the screen, where the text would normally be, rather than in the middle of the screen where they normally appear. I'm not sure how to move the placement of the buttons or change their width and height. I know you most likely change them in the screens.rpy in the choice screen section, just not sure how. Any help would be appreciated, thank you

[rayminator]

hope this helps you I have put this <-- to show what you need to adjust the choice box

in gui.rpy look for

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## Choice Buttons ##############################################################
##
## Choice buttons are used in the in-game menus.

define gui.choice_button_width = 600
define gui.choice_button_height = 60
define gui.choice_button_tile = False
define gui.choice_button_borders = Borders(100, 5, 100, 5)
define gui.choice_button_text_font = gui.text_font
define gui.choice_button_text_size = 35
define gui.choice_button_text_xalign = 0.8 <-- this should move  right & left 
define gui.choice_button_text_idle_color = "#f60fbd"
define gui.choice_button_text_hover_color = "#fa69d6"
define gui.choice_button_text_insensitive_color = "#444444"

and in screens.rpy look for

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style choice_vbox:
    xalign 0.5 <-- this should move  right & left
    ypos 405 <-- this should move up & down
    yanchor 0.5

[ForeverAScone]

hope this helps you I have put this <-- to show what you need to adjust the choice box

in gui.rpy look for

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## Choice Buttons ##############################################################
##
## Choice buttons are used in the in-game menus.

define gui.choice_button_width = 600
define gui.choice_button_height = 60
define gui.choice_button_tile = False
define gui.choice_button_borders = Borders(100, 5, 100, 5)
define gui.choice_button_text_font = gui.text_font
define gui.choice_button_text_size = 35
define gui.choice_button_text_xalign = 0.8 <-- this should move  right & left 
define gui.choice_button_text_idle_color = "#f60fbd"
define gui.choice_button_text_hover_color = "#fa69d6"
define gui.choice_button_text_insensitive_color = "#444444"

and in screens.rpy look for

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style choice_vbox:
    xalign 0.5 <-- this should move  right & left
    ypos 405 <-- this should move up & down
    yanchor 0.5

Thank you, that helps Is there a way to make it so this formatting only applies for one part of the game, then the rest of the game it goes back to normal?

[rayminator]

here you can have two types but this is old so the possibility it might not work
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39001&hilit=multipl ... le#p419071

here another one
viewtopic.php?t=20366

[Imperf3kt]

I haven't used it myself, but I believe you can use https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.ht ... Preference
Followed by a renpy style rebuild.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.ht ... le.rebuild

[Ulalaria]

I'm gonna bump this because I'm trying to do the same thing - that is, have the choice menu styled differently in different scenes. I came across the threads rayminator linked to in my research, but those solutions no longer work since the RenPy 7 gui overhaul. And I'm concerned about using style.rebuild() because it sounds like the style changes will be undone if the player saves/loads during the choice?

[Ulalaria]

Ooh, nevermind? I might have got something working just using renpy.set_style_preference..
An init block before the start label:

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init python:
    renpy.register_style_preference("choicepos", "erika", style.choice_vbox, "xpos", 1380)
    renpy.register_style_preference("choicepos", "christine", style.choice_vbox, "xpos", 30)

Then I set the preference just before the menu appears

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    nar_r "Here, make a decision..."
    $ renpy.set_style_preference("choicepos", "erika")
    menu:
        "Decision 1":
            pass
        "Decision 2":
            pass
            
    nar_l "Make another decision..."
    $ renpy.set_style_preference("choicepos", "christine")
    menu:
        "Decision 1":
            pass
        "Decision 2":
            pass