Create a banner with text?

[lindsay-jb]

I play a lot of VNs and most will have moments where a textbox banner will appear at the top to tell you things like achievements, point checks (such as “your relationship with so-and-so is too low so they don’t believe you”), etc. These are not a regular text box and usually stay for a few seconds, and are visible while the regular text conversations continue.

I’ve been looking all over and can’t figure out a way to do this on renpy. I could try to have the banners as a textbox, but I don’t know how I could have two text boxes shown at the same time. And then it would be hard to have the banner stay for five seconds and not disappear when the player clicks.

Showing it as an image would be obnoxious because I’d have to make images for every single achievement/point check that I have. Anyway, wondering if anyone has any ideas or solutions for this?

[Ocelot]

Check the implementation of default notify screen in new project.

And check out what $ renpy.notify("Hello! This is default notification.") will do. DOes it looks like something close to what you want?

[lindsay-jb]

Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for! Wow! Okay, since I have you here I’m having one small issue. How do I make the text not be smashed off to one side the border is wide enough that it shouldn’t do that, so I’m confused about why that’s happening.

[Ocelot]

There can be a lot of possible causes. One thing to check if anything from text to frame to window has something with set width or maximum size in styles. You can try to press Shift+I, while hovering over notification text and check all applied styles.

[lindsay-jb]

Thank you! And sorry for the late reply. I ended up using the format of the default notify screens and made my own custom screen and function which allowed me to have more control of the properties, such as having a notification header with a different font and color than the rest of the box, and I'm very happy with the result!