"show"ing a full screen image without hiding dialog window?

[AVNSnax]

I thought this would be easy, but after a couple of hours of searching the web I'm not any wiser.

I'm trying to display a sequence showing the mc falling asleep slowly while slowly progressing the dialog using extend.The full screen image sequence shows the mc slowly closing his eyes and transition using a slow dissolve. Fine, but the dialog window disappears as long as it takes for each dissolve to complete. The extend functionality doesn't make much sense here with the window constantly blinking in and out of the screen.

Both scene and show hide the dialog window until they complete. Is there any way around this?

I'm a relative newbie so please be kind. Thanks.

[edgebug]

i think that if you put "window show" before the sequence, the window will keep on screen
like...

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window show
show whatever
"text text text{nw}"
show whatever
extend "more text more text more text"

that SHOULD do the trick :3

[AVNSnax]

That's one of the first things I tried. It's the show statement that hides the window, and it doesn't come back until the transition finishes (in this case Dissolve(3.0)).

[edgebug]

let me see if i can figure something out. one second

[edgebug]

viewtopic.php?t=17001

this might work for you.

[edgebug]

viewtopic.php?t=8727

or this? they're pretty old topics but they might do it.

[AVNSnax]

viewtopic.php?t=17001

this might work for you.

Thanks edgebug! That did it. I looked at $ renpy.transition briefly but went down a rabbit hole with show expression and forgot to swing back around to it.

[Imperf3kt]

You could potentially add show window with None
None being the transition to use, which being "None" will force it to use no transition at all

[AVNSnax]

You could potentially add show window with None
None being the transition to use, which being "None" will force it to use no transition at all

But I want the transition. That was the impetus for the discussion.

I ended up solving the problem by avoiding the high-level show command:

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init python:
    def immediateShowWithTransition(bkimg, transition):
        renpy.show(bkimg)
        renpy.transition(trans=eval(transition), layer="master")
. . .
define slowDissolve = Dissolve(3.0)
# show image1 with slowDissolve
$ immediateShowWithTransition('image1', 'slowDissolve')

Does the trick.

[Ocelot]

< pyton code >

If you have to write eval and you are not writing parser, you probably doing it wrong.
What was wronh with

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show image1 with {'master': slowDissolve} 

?

[AVNSnax]

< pyton code >

If you have to write eval and you are not writing parser, you probably doing it wrong.
What was wronh with

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show image1 with {'master': slowDissolve} 

?

Well, none except that I didn't realize that that syntax was possible. That's why I asked in the first place? Thanks.