[Solved] Assigning One-off Alternate Color Highligh to Menu Choice

[decocloud]

Hey there, advance apologies as I have zero idea how to code and I'm kinda struggling with this. My game has some situations where after a set amount of time, a menu choice will "change" into an alternate option. I was able to code the countdown and alternate choice myself, as well as carry over the hover and select sfx via button styles. What I'm struggling with is getting the new choice to highlight with a new hover png so that it is a different color, with this the background changes successfully but I've lost the hover functionality. I thought I might simply be able to add more styling parameters but I'm struggling with the syntax. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies for my extremely hacky code, I have very little idea what I'm doing.

right now I have (in the script)

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label altChoice1:

    label menu1:
        $ time = 0.5
        $ timer_ranger = 0.5
        $ timer_jump = 'menu1_slow'
        show screen countdown

        menu:
            "Option A":
                 jump ahead
            "Option B":
                  jump ahead

label menu1_slow:
    menu:
        "Surprise Option C" (altChoice=True):  
              jump ahead
        "Option B":
              jump ahead

and this (in screens)

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"
    
    vbox:
        for i in items:
            $ altChoice = i.kwargs.get("altChoice", False)
            if not altChoice:
                textbutton i.caption action i.action
            if altChoice:
                textbutton i.caption background "images/choice_hover_backgroundALT.png" action i.action

Plus some styling properties

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style choice_textbutton is button
style choice_textbutton_text is button_text

style choice_vbox:
    xalign 0.5
    ypos 405
    yanchor 0.5

    spacing gui.choice_spacing

style choice_textbutton is default:
    properties gui.button_properties("choice_button")
    hover_sound "audio/rollover.ogg"
    activate_sound "audio/choice.ogg"

style choice_button_text is default:
    properties gui.button_text_properties("choice_button")

[philat]

Try hover_background instead of background.

[decocloud]

oh my god that was easy. thank you for the help ;u;