[SOLVED]String variables passed into screen contain brackets and extra chatacters

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I'm tinkering with screens and have run into an issue I can't find any sort of documentation on. My goal for a future project is to create a simple profile screen. User clicks a button and a screen comes up detailing some points about their character, and then the user can close the screen. Nothing fancy or complicated.

I've watched the tutorial on screens as well as the passing parameters into screens, but I'm stumped. I have the following code:

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menu:
        "What is your hair color?"
        "Black":
           $ hair_color = "Black"
        "Brown":
           $ hair_color = "Brown"
        "Blonde":
           $ hair_color = "Blonde"
        "Red":
           $ hair_color = "Red"
    label after_hair:
    
    menu:
        "Are you tall or short?"
        "Tall":
           $ height = "Tall"
        "Short":
           $ height = "Short"
        "Average":
           $ height = "Average"
    label after_height:

    screen profile_screen(hair_color, height, close=Return(True)):
        frame:
            xalign 0.5 ypos 50
            vbox:
                text _("Hair Color: [hair_color]. \nHeight: [height].")
                textbutton _("Close"):
                    action close
                    
    call screen profile_screen([hair_color], [height])
                
    "Finished"

User selects their height/hair color, then a screen gets called and displays it. What I get is the following:



If I selected brown hair, the value of "Brown" gets loaded into $ hair_color, so why is it being displayed as [u'Brown']? I tried the same syntax from the tutorial and that yields the same issue. Am I not doing something with the variables correctly? I'm using some variables in my current project, so this would be good to learn and clear up, as maybe I'm missing something.

[Per K Grok]

I'm tinkering with screens and have run into an issue I can't find any sort of documentation on. My goal for a future project is to create a simple profile screen. User clicks a button and a screen comes up detailing some points about their character, and then the user can close the screen. Nothing fancy or complicated.

I've watched the tutorial on screens as well as the passing parameters into screens, but I'm stumped. I have the following code:

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If I selected brown hair, the value of "Brown" gets loaded into $ hair_color, so why is it being displayed as [u'Brown']? I tried the same syntax from the tutorial and that yields the same issue. Am I not doing something with the variables correctly? I'm using some variables in my current project, so this would be good to learn and clear up, as maybe I'm missing something.

What works in ordinary renpy code does not always work in screens.

Try constructing your strings this way instead.

text _("Hair Color: " + hair_color)

That aught to work.

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text _("Hair Color: " + hair_color)

Taking this verbatim causes a runtime error.

[hell_oh_world]

Pass the variables as they are, not as a list.

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call screen profile_screen(hair_color, height)

Also, might safer to use than normal concatenation...

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text _("Hair: {}, Height: {}".format(hair_color, height))

or...

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text _("Hair: [hair_color], Height: [height]")

I also suggest moving your screen definitions outside labels, they should be the same level as a normal label (0 indentation).

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Okay, I think it was as you said, the call line and using the [] instead of just the variable name. Thanks!