Temporarily disable save function?

[ForeverAScone]

Does anyone know a way to temporarily disable the save function? For example, I have a rpg-styled battle in my game and I don’t want the player to be able to save during the battle until it is over. Thank you

[gas]

Use a global variable at the start of the script, maybe called "can_save".

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default can_save = True

Set it to False at the start of the battle and back to True at the end of combat.

In the NAVIGATION screen, add a check to disable SAVE/LOAD screens.

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 action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)]

Then, to be fully compliant, change what you reach with the right clicking just after start.

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label start:
    $ _game_menu = "preferences"

I dunno if the quick menu is there, if you had one during battle use the same check for the navigation screen to disable the save button.

[ForeverAScone]

Use a global variable at the start of the script, maybe called "can_save"...

Hi, thanks for the response (even though I'm a month late at getting back to it lol >_<) I keep getting this error message:

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File "game/screens.rpy", line 291: expected statement.
    action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)]
                                                    ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.3.5.606
Fri Jul 10 16:15:19 2020

I'm not really sure where to put that line within the navigation section.

[rayminator]

can you post the full error code

[ForeverAScone]

can you post the full error code

That is the full error code. I only got rid of "I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the errors listed below, and try again."
But here it is again if you want it.

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.

File "game/screens.rpy", line 291: expected statement.
    action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)]
                                                    ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.3.5.606
Fri Jul 10 16:15:19 2020

[rayminator]

do you see a traceback.txt or log.txt the traceback here if you do see it error.txt only give some info

what are put the action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)] (whish they have the in-line bbcode) to textbutton/imagebutton??
what's the full code for it?

[ForeverAScone]

do you see a traceback.txt or log.txt the traceback here if you do see it error.txt only give some info

what are put the action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)] (whish they have the in-line bbcode) to textbutton/imagebutton??
what's the full code for it?

You mean you want to see the full traceback code? For some reason this error is not showing up in log.txt or traceback.txt. I'm not really sure what you mean by the your question about the textbutton/imagebutton, sorry

[rayminator]

you have to put the action in a textbutton


something like this you can't just have the action only you need something before it

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textbutton _("Save") action [ShowMenu("save"), SensitiveIf(can_save)]

[RicharDann]

Then, to be fully compliant, change what you reach with the right clicking just after start.

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label start:
    $ _game_menu = "preferences"

I tried this too but oddly it doesn't seem to work. The textbutton is disabled properly in navigation and quick menu screen, using the method you mentioned with can_save global variable, but right-clicking keeps sending me straight to the save screen. Tried using define and default too before labels, none of them worked. Is there another solution?

EDIT: Found it, seems the variable's name was changed to _game_menu_screen.

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label start:
    $ _game_menu_screen = "preferences"

Now it works as intended.