Automatically adding "speaking" attribute to speaking character

[zmook]

So it seems like it would be convenient to use character callbacks to automatically add the "speaking" attribute to the character's sprite (the main one, not a side image) when they say something, and remove it when they're done. Is there any way to dynamically add or remove an attribute, like "speaking", to a shown image tag?

Basically, how do I automate this?

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    show ellen speaking
    el "Oh! You're interesting."
    show ellen -speaking

[zmook]

Hm. Lacking renpy.add_showing_attribute(tag) and renpy.remove_showing_attribute(tag) functions (I've looked for them and can't find them -- if they *do* exist and I just can't find them in the docs please let me know), it seems like an algorithm something like this might work?

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  def speaking_callback_pseudocode():
      for tag in renpy.get_showing_tags():
          if "speaking" in renpy.get_attributes(tag):
                current_attrs = renpy.get_attributes(tag)
                remove "speaking" from current_attrs
               reshow image tag with current_attrs # hm, I don't actually see a renpy.show_image(tag, attrs) function in the docs?
      speaker_tag = renpy.get_say_image_tag()
      reshow image speaker_tag with current_attrs+"speaking"

At least, it seems like it might work if renpy.show_image() exists, but I don't see it with the other image functions at https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... -functions

[philat]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... _attribute

[zmook]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... _attribute

AHA!