Hiding JUST ONE image button (not the screen)?

[ChaiLatte]

Hi. So I know you can hide an entire screen but with the way some other code for my game works I need to keep the screen up at all times. However I do need to be able to hide and unhide imagebuttons on said screen frequently throughout the game (they are clickable characters that exist in a location and on each location I need to swap out which characters are there as you click to interact with them).

Any way I can do this? I was looking around and couldn't find any evidence of this being possible.

[rayminator]

this one way

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if button_on == False:
        textbutton _("test") action [SetVariable("button_on", True), Show("test")]
    else:
        None  or pass

[ChaiLatte]

this one way

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if button_on == False:
        textbutton _("test") action [SetVariable("button_on", True), Show("test")]
    else:
        None  or pass

Hi there. Thanks for your help.
How would I co-opt this for image buttons? I declared my button like so:

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screen overlaycharacters():
            imagebutton: #create clickable character on screen
                xpos 0.5
                ypos 0.28
                idle "bun_map_auto.png" #image non hovered
                hover "bun_map_hover.png" #image hovered
                action Jump("chatwithbun") #jump to label with dialogue for scene

I'm assuming I can't just have two actions for one button, can I ?

[Per K Grok]

this one way

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if button_on == False:
        textbutton _("test") action [SetVariable("button_on", True), Show("test")]
    else:
        None  or pass

Hi there. Thanks for your help.
How would I co-opt this for image buttons? I declared my button like so:

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I'm assuming I can't just have two actions for one button, can I ?

Yes you can have two (or more) actions to one button [which is in rayminator's example, SetVariable and Show ]
You could use that example like this

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screen overlaycharacters():
  if button_on == False:
        imagebutton: #create clickable character on screen
            xpos 0.5
            ypos 0.28
            idle "bun_map_auto.png" #image non hovered
            hover "bun_map_hover.png" #image hovered
            action [SetVariable("button_on", True), Jump("chatwithbun") ]  #jump to label with dialogue for scene
            

[ChaiLatte]

It worked-- thanks so much both of you

[ChaiLatte]

Actually... I forgot something (sorry for double post). Is there a way to do this in an area besides the creation of the imagebutton itself? I need to hide the characters when you switch maps as well, so you can come back and click them later.

edit: NEVERMIND AGAIN! I found out that if I have multiple screens it works just fine <3