[SOLVED] "Activating" Imagebutton functionality

[doorknob22]

Hi and thank you for reading this.

I'm trying to implement basic map functionality in my game. And have two questions:

1. If I remove the "Now What" text, the game breezes in and out of the code faster than my salary without showing the map or anything. How do I just show the map without using such pathetic tricks?
2. In order to get the hover functionality to work (on the "Yatz" image), I have to click on the map once. How can I display the map and have my buttons/territories hover-able without having to click the map?

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    "Now what?"

screen ingame_menu:
        imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top

screen mapscreen:
    imagebutton auto "Yatz_%s.png" action Show('hello_world') xpos 1460 ypos 490 focus_mask True

[hell_oh_world]

Try adding modal True to your screen.

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screen mapscreen():
  modal True
  # your imagebuttons...

[doorknob22]

Try adding modal True to your screen.

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screen mapscreen():
  modal True
  # your imagebuttons...

I'm sorry but that didn't solve any of the problems I ran into.
1. If I remove the "Now what?" text, the code will run without displaying my map.
2. The hover functionality is still only activated after clicking the map.

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    "Now what?"

screen ingame_menu:
 
    imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top
    


screen mapscreen:
    modal True
    imagebutton auto "Yatz_%s.png" action Show('hello_world') xpos 1460 ypos 490 focus_mask True

[rayminator]

use idle instead of auto

what version of renpy are you using?

stable version
prereleased version

if you want to have mouse move over that button to open without clicking

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screen button_overlay():
    mousearea:
        area (0, 0, 1.0, 100)
        hovered Show("buttons", transition=dissolve)
        unhovered Hide("buttons", transition=dissolve)

label start:
    show screen button_overlay

[doorknob22]

use idle instead of auto

what version of renpy are you using?

stable version
prereleased version

if you want to have mouse move over that button to open without clicking

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screen button_overlay():
    mousearea:
        area (0, 0, 1.0, 100)
        hovered Show("buttons", transition=dissolve)
        unhovered Hide("buttons", transition=dissolve)

label start:
    show screen button_overlay

I'm using 7.3.5.606, stable recommended.

Can you elaborate what you meant by using "idle" instead of "auto"?

[rayminator]

this part where it says auto

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imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top

to

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imagebutton idle "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top

[Imperf3kt]

I don't think this issue is related to idle/hover states.

[RicharDann]

1. If I remove the "Now what?" text, the code will run without displaying my map.

How is your maploop label being run? If you're using a call statement, or the Call screen action, upon reaching the show screen statement, it may be returning to the previous label without showing the screen because there's no interaction afterwards (the game doesn't pause for the player to click or press a button). If you don't want to display some dialogue you can use pause statement.

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    pause

2. The hover functionality is still only activated after clicking the map.

I didn't have this problem in my test project, setting modal to True in mapscreen works as expected. Unfortunately I'm not sure what may be causing the problem for you. Not sure if this is related, but bear in mind that if focus_mask is True, the hover will only activate when the mouse is over the actual colored pixels of the image.

[doorknob22]

1. If I remove the "Now what?" text, the code will run without displaying my map.

How is your maploop label being run? If you're using a call statement, or the Call screen action, upon reaching the show screen statement, it may be returning to the previous label without showing the screen because there's no interaction afterwards (the game doesn't pause for the player to click or press a button). If you don't want to display some dialogue you can use pause statement.

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    pause

2. The hover functionality is still only activated after clicking the map.

I didn't have this problem in my test project, setting modal to True in mapscreen works as expected. Unfortunately I'm not sure what may be causing the problem for you. Not sure if this is related, but bear in mind that if focus_mask is True, the hover will only activate when the mouse is over the actual colored pixels of the image.

Yay! Replacing the silly "Now what?" statement with a pause solved the first issue. Thanks.

The only problem left is why the hover mechanism doesn't activate until I click at least once, anywhere on the map.

My code currently looks like this:

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    pause
    



screen ingame_menu:    
    imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top



screen mapscreen:
    $ iname = territoryList[0].name    
    imagebutton auto "Yatz_%s.png" action Show('hello_world',None,iname) xpos 1460 ypos 490 focus_mask True

[hell_oh_world]

Do you mean that you want the mapscreen to appear when the imagebutton "map" is hovered in the ingame_menu screen?
There are various way you can execute an action through a button, refer to the docs https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/scre ... magebutton.

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screen ingame_menu:    
    imagebutton auto "map_%s.png":
      action NullAction() # we provide an empty action as the main action so that we can hover the button, and once hovered the action below is executed.
      hovered Show("mapscreen")
      at top

[doorknob22]

Thank you everyone who helped, I figured it out.

My problem (button is not clickable and not bloody present) was due to the fact that I inserted it via

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imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top

, hence it depended on the Show("mapscreen") bit.

I changed my sad little code to this:

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label maploop:
    show screen ingame_menu    
    pause
    
screen ingame_menu:    
    #imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action Show("mapscreen") at top #<- this makes the button dependent on the action 
    imagebutton auto "map_%s.png" action NullAction() # this says "just put the map here and move on"
    imagebutton auto "Yatz_%s.png" action Show('territory_screen') xpos 1460 ypos 490 focus_mask True

Again, thanks everyone who bothered to stop and help!