Customizing menu captions

[zmook]

A comment in screens.rpy says that when config.narrator_menu=True, menu captions will be spoken by the narrator. Is there a way to change that to a different character?

I'd like to customize how (ie, *where*) menu captions are displayed, but I already use the narrator character a lot so it would be inconvenient to redefine it.

Or do I have to do something kludgey like hardcode the 'say' screen to test whether the 'choice' screen is currently visible?

[Ocelot]

You actually can say menu caption as any character (documentation does not show it, but mentions that you can use say statement there.):

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define c = Character( . . . )
# . . . 
menu:
    c "What would it be?"
    "option 1":
        pass

[zmook]

Okay, I've defined a caption character that adjusts the yalign of the say window:

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define caption = Character(None, window_yalign=0.3) # menu

It seems to work, except for one weird glitch where an empty say window flashes at the bottom of the screen before getting redrawn at its new assigned position. This flash happens when the choice menu is shown, and again when it is dismissed. This happens in both 7.4 and 8.0. Any idea why that would happen, or is this just what happens when you try to use an undocumented feature?

[zmook]

Okay, no it has nothing to do with using an explicit caption character -- same thing is happening for me when I do a normal menu caption and try to do conditional positioning in the 'say' screen ("if renpy.get_screen("choice"): say_window_yalign = 0.3"). Seems to be something to do with how the caption and choice screens get drawn?

[zmook]

Ah, I think this was a consequence of having 'window auto' on. If renpy thinks the window is supposed to be showing when it passes from an input screen to a choice screen, it ends up flashing in its default position in the transition between the two.