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zmook wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:33 pm

Dark12ose wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:35 pm

When the mct is the first speaker in a scene change is there a ghosting of the default textbox before the custom textbox appear?

Oh, that sounds sort of familiar. I had a similar problem when I was re-writing the 'choice' screen, and fixed the ghost say box with

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  window hide

If that seems to work for your problem, see this part of the docs for details:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... fig.window

lsf22 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 09, 2022 12:48 pm

What exactly am I doing wrong with this code? @Zmook

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screen say(who, what, thoughtbubble=False):
    # Character keyword arguments beginning with "show_" have the prefix stripped off,
    # and are passed to the screen as arguments.
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"
        if thoughtbubble:
            background Frame("gui/textbox2.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
        else:
            background Frame("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

        if who is not None:
            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"

        text what id "what"

define e = Character("Eileen")
define et = Character("Eileen thoughts", thoughtbubble=True)

Dark12ose wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:50 pm

I did find this solution and it definitely hides the ghosting textbox but at the cost of no textbox transition happening unfortunately.
The only way I found to get BOTH working was to do manual change. (I'm VERY picky with what I want lol)

zmook wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 09, 2022 2:39 pm

What textbox transition are you trying to use?

Dark12ose wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 09, 2022 6:19 pm

What it does with the custom textbox is the default textbox appears first with the dissolve/transition than the custom textbox appears abruptly replacing it hence when used "window hide" the custom textbox just appears without the transition.

zmook wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 09, 2022 6:27 pm

Does anyone know, is Ren'py doing some kind of awkward optimization here?

lsf22 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 11, 2022 4:45 pm

I have wondered how version 8 is going to affect the code, which says it adds support for Python 3. I'm still using 7.4.11 for my game.
As for the current condition switch code by @DarkRose, it works fine. One thing to consider if anyone is using this method is that you'll able to see that when if you escape the dialogue by going to another menu(eg. tutorial menu) during the thought bubble dialogue is that it will still be active.

Dark12ose wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:35 pm

zmook wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:41 am

FWIW, it's common practice to define a separate "character" to speak the interior thoughts, when you want them to have a different look.

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define mc = Character("Our hero")   # for normal dialog
define mct = Character("", show_thoughtbubble=True)   # main character thoughts

screen say(who, what, thoughtbubble=False):
    # Character keyword arguments beginning with "show_" have the prefix stripped off, 
    # and are passed to the screen as arguments.
    style_prefix "say"
    
    window:
        style window:
        	background ConditionSwitch(
		        "thoughtbubble", Frame("gui/thoughtbubble.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
	        	"True", Frame("gui/textbox.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0),
	                )


label start:
	mc "The dialogue box is a regular box."
	mct "Now the dialogue box is my inner thought bubble."

Hmm the textbox doesn't seem to appear. Just uses the default textbox.

This would be nice if it works as it will save a whole lot of typing and confusion but one question. When the mct is the first speaker in a scene change is there a ghosting of the default textbox before the custom textbox appear?

I was having that problem when I was using the "window_background" in the Character() and using this method for automatic textbox change hence I just suggested manual change with ConditionSwitch.

[code]style window:
    background ConditionSwitch(
    "tb == 'normal'", Frame("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0),
    "tb == 'thoughtbubble'", Frame("gui/textbox_thought.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
    )