Hiding the dialogue window

[m_from_space]

So I know that the player can hide the dialogue window via pressing "H" or middle mouse button and that this is defined via

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config.keymap['hide_windows'] = [ 'mouseup_2', 'h', 'noshift_K_h' ]

Now how can I make a button hide and show the dialogue screen in the same way without the game advancing and without creating a boolean inside the say screen?

What does not work and produces an error:

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button action Function(_window_hide)

What also does not work is just hiding the say screen, since when you show the say screen again it is expected to get a new line of dialogue of course.

I feel like I missed something here.

[Alex]

The screen action is HideInterface() - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_a ... eInterface

[m_from_space]

Hey Alex,

thank you, but that's just the same as using Hide("say"), although it hides any other screen as well, which is not what I really want.

Also I would like to show the dialogue screen again. I guess i just create a boolean inside the say screen that I am going to toggle.

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Well, that doesn't work, because when clicking the say screen throws an error then.

Is there a "ShowInterface" command too?

[Alex]

...Is there a "ShowInterface" command too?

Just click somwhere to make screen appear...

Or try something like

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default say_window_show = True
    
screen say(who, what):
    
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        if not say_window_show:
            xoffset config.screen_width
            # or
            # at fancy_transform_to_move_out
        #else:
            # at fancy_transform_to_move_in
            
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"

        text what id "what"

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screen one_button_scr():
    textbutton "ClickMe!" action ToggleVariable("say_window_show", True, False) align(0.05, 0.05)

# The game starts here.
label start:
    show screen one_button_scr
    "..."
    "... ..."
    "?!"

[m_from_space]

Haha, yeah that was my idea too, just offset the screen and then create a button all over the window, but it's definitely ugly.

I'm just confused that it's not easier to hide it, since hitting the "H" key can easily show and hide it without advancing or clicking needed. Would need to know more about the inner workings of renpy I guess.

Thanks anyway!