[SOLVED]Simple Chat problem!

[Sterkiherz]

Hello! How are you doing?

I was doing some testing today and I've decided I wanted to add some kind of chat system to my game.
- I've edited this post to show my solution to this! -

I've managed to fix this problem and I guess I'll post my full code here just in case anyone else needed it~

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#---CHAT SYSTEM
init -1 python:
    class Message(object):
        def __init__(self, pic, name, message):
            self.pic = pic
            self.name = name
            self.message = message
# Mom chatlog:
    class MChatlog(object):
        def __init__(self):
            self.history = []

        def addmessage(self, pic, name, message):
            self.history.append(Message(pic, name, message))

        def delchat(self):
            self.history = []

screen chatdisplay:
    tag menu
    use no_quick_menu
    zorder 5
    add "gui/nvl.png"

    viewport:
        mousewheel True
        side_area (430, 120, 400, 400)
        yinitial 0.0
        scrollbars "vertical"
        vbox:
            spacing 10
            for i in Mchat.history:
                if i.name == "You": #check speakers name
                    frame:
                        xalign 1.0
                        #position the player's chat bubble
                        xoffset 75
                        background "#dedede"
                        maximum (300, 500)#(300,200)
                        vbox:
                            hbox:
                                add i.pic xalign 1.0
                                text i.name font "fonts/Satisfy-Regular.ttf" size 25 color "#dedede" outlines [(1, "#595959")] xalign 1.0
                            text i.message font "fonts/ABeeZee-Regular.ttf" size 18 color "#ffffff" xalign 1.0
                else:
                    frame:
                        xalign 0.0
                        background "#595959"
                        maximum (300, 500)
                        vbox:
                            hbox:
                                add i.pic
                                text i.name font "fonts/Satisfy-Regular.ttf" size 25 color "#dedede" outlines [(1, "#595959")]
                            text i.message font "fonts/ABeeZee-Regular.ttf" size 18 color "#ffffff"

init:
    default Mchat = MChatlog()

#define avatars
image mom = "messenger/av/Mom_s.png"
#image mrj = "messenger/av/Mom_s.png" --> need image
image you = "messenger/av/You_s.png"
image alice = "messenger/av/Alice_s.png"
image tahiel = "messenger/av/Tahiel_s.png"
image wren = "messenger/av/Wren_s.png"
image kevan = "messenger/av/Kevan_s.png"
image nieves = "messenger/av/Nieves_s.png"

#----------------------------------------

label chat_test:
    n "okay, let me add some messages..."
    $ Mchat.addmessage('you', "You", "Mom, I'll be home later today.")
    #$metxt=True
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    show screen chatdisplay
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('you', "You", "I'm on my way to a Friends Place.")
    #$metxt=True
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('mom', "Mom", "That's alright honey. Just don't go home too late.")
    #$metxt=False
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('mom', "Mom", "Okay?")
    #$metxt=False
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('you', "You", "Yeah, yeah. I know.")
    #$metxt=True
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('mom', "Mom", "Alright, I'll be waiting..")
    #$metxt=False
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('mom', "Mom", "Love you {image=kiss}")
    #$metxt=False
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()

    $ Mchat.addmessage('you', "You", "{image=kiss} {image=kiss}")
    #$metxt=True
    play sound "audio/message.ogg"
    $renpy.pause()
    hide screen chatdisplay

    n "There. It works now!"

I'm not an expert at this and there's probably better ways to make this work but this is the way I've managed to fix it so hey, here it is and I hope someone finds it useful.

So what did I change?
* The user could not click to advance text - Apparently I had my screen defined with the 'Modal=True' statement and 'renpy.pause()' was not having any effect. Deleting this statement seemed to have fixed this issue.
* I've added a way to check if speakers name is set to 'You' so that the chat bubble is positioned and aligned to the right.
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Thank you for reading and have a nice day~ n.n