Different textbox position depending on the situation

[Adrian_DVL]

Hi!

I'd like to change the position of the textbox depending on the situation, and by it I don't mean that I want three or four different positions and neither do I mean I want different characters to have different positions for their textbox, because I'd already know how to do it.

The thing is that my game consists in screens that have sprites of people that appear in different positions, so I want a small textbox to appear next to the sprite, whatever its position is, and changing the position at times for the same character.

I guess I have to mess with window_xpos and window_ypos when defining characters, but I don't see the way to do it without having to define one character per each situation, which would be a pain in the ass.

I've tried to set two variables and to change them each time and to set window_xpos and window_ypos to those variables, but that doesn't work, presumably because characters are objects of a class and I can't change a field like that.

Anyone has an idea? I'd appreciate any help!

[_ticlock_]

Hi, Adrian_DVL,

I think you can use Say with Arguments to specify the position of textbox.

[Alex]

...

Also, you can make custom screen to use instead of standard say screen. But you'll have to mess up with styles a bit...

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define e = Character("Eileen", who_style='my_say_label', what_style='my_say_dialogue', screen='my_scr')

style my_frame:
    xminimum 400
    yalign 0.0
    
style my_say_label:
    align (0.0, 0.5)
    xminimum 400

style my_say_dialogue:
    align (0.0, 0.0)
    xminimum 400
    
screen my_scr(who, what):
    style_prefix 'my'
    frame:
        align(my_x_align, my_y_align)
        xsize 400
        yminimum 200
        vbox:
            yminimum 200
            align(0.5, 0.05)
            if who:
                frame:
                    background Solid("#c0c0c055")
                    text who size 35 id "who"
            frame:
                background Solid("#c5c5c577")
                text what id "what"


# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ my_x_align, my_y_align = round(renpy.random.random(), 1), round(renpy.random.random(), 1)
    "([my_x_align], [my_y_align])"
    e "Line 1"
    e "Line 2"
    e "Looooooooong Line of text.\nBlah-Blah-Blah\n...\nLooooooooong Line of text.\nBlah-Blah-Blah\n...\nLooooooooong Line of text.\nBlah-Blah-Blah\n...\nLooooooooong Line of text.\nBlah-Blah-Blah\n...\n?"
    jump start

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue.html#Character

[Remix]

You could adapt my Speech Bubble dialogue system to your needs...

https://github.com/RenpyRemix/speech-bubbles

[Alex]

You could adapt my Speech Bubble dialogue system to your needs...

https://github.com/RenpyRemix/speech-bubbles

Why it's not in a cookbook?...))

[Adrian_DVL]

You could adapt my Speech Bubble dialogue system to your needs...

https://github.com/RenpyRemix/speech-bubbles

Your system made my day, man! Thank you so much!
Also, thanks to _ticlock_ and Alex as always!

[Remix]

Why it's not in a cookbook?...))

On the agenda at some point... time permitting...

Did hope to add several more snippets and then start a cookbook like Tom's one (just a listing of them all in one thread, updated when new ones appear)...