[Solved] Dynamic Key Specifier

[Bev_]

Basically, I want the user to be able to pick his own key for certain action (in-game, without rummaging through files, even if that change would require restarting the game to take place).

I'm assigning the key like this:

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init python:
	config.underlay.append(renpy.Keymap(show_my_screen= ToggleScreen("my_screen")))
	config.keymap["show_my_screen"] = "p"

When I try to change it into something like:

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default persistent.custom_key = "p"
init python:
	config.underlay.append(renpy.Keymap(show_my_screen= ToggleScreen("my_screen")))
	config.keymap["show_my_screen"] = persistent.custom_key

It sadly doesn't work I've tried many different variations, googled for hours (maybe I just don't know the correct keywords) and no progress.
This particular way produces AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'split', other ones mostly end up on Exception: Invalid key specifier

Is it possible? What's the best way of achieving it?

atm. My only idea is to provide preset of keys and allow the user to pick one, something like:

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default persistent.key_ID = 1
init python:
	config.underlay.append(renpy.Keymap(show_my_screen= ToggleScreen("my_screen")))
	if persistent.key_ID  == 1:
		config.keymap["show_my_screen"] = "p"
	elif persistent.key_ID == 2:
		config.keymap["show_my_screen"] = "q"

etc. but despite the fact that it works, it looks terrible (even for my standards ) and is a lot less convenient.

[zmook]

I think your problem is that 'config' variables are mostly (always?) only read during init, so later changes won't show up til you restart.

Try something like:

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screen keyreader:
    key persistent.my_keysym action Function(do_my_thing)
    
label start:
    show screen keyreader

[Bev_]

I think your problem is that 'config' variables are mostly (always?) only read during init, so later changes won't show up til you restart.

Try something like:

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screen keyreader:
    key persistent.my_keysym action Function(do_my_thing)
    
label start:
    show screen keyreader

The thing is: Reason why I'm using keybinds in a first place is that I'm working on a mod, not a game itself, and I want it to be universal, so I can't really modify any existing files/structures. I probably should've mention that :/

So unless I can somehow show that screen during init( Can I? )...

My first reflex is to do something dumb like binding showing that screen to mouse click I'm gonna give it some thought

Edit: Doesn't work TypeError: __init__() keywords must be strings

[zmook]

So unless I can somehow show that screen during init( Can I? )...

Ah, got it. Even if you can show a screen during init (which I think you cannot), it would probably get hidden when Start() is called anyway.

The config.underlay stuff seems to be undocumented, but one of us could dig around in the code and see if we can learn anything.

The other thing I notice, not sure if you've tried: config.keymap is supposed to map "from event names to lists of keysyms", and you're just giving it a string. Does

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	config.keymap["show_my_screen"] = ["p", ] 

work better?

The other thing I'd try is pushing your init block as late in the order as possible to make sure 'persistent' is initialized before you get to it: init 999 python

[Bev_]

The other thing I'd try is pushing your init block as late in the order as possible to make sure 'persistent' is initialized before you get to it: init 999 python

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init 500 python:
    persistent.my_key = "p"
init 998 python:
    config.keymap["my_thing"] = persistent.my_key

Worked.

I guess that means all init python blocks run before renpy's init no matter the priority.
I've tried

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init 500:
    default persistent.my_key = "p"
init 998 python:
    config.keymap["my_thing"] = persistent.my_key

and

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init 998 python:
    default persistent.my_key = "p" #Edit: I don't remember if I did this, but I've really used default here... Damn, so many hour wasted.
    config.keymap["my_thing"] = persistent.my_key

before and none of them worked. Is it really that big of a difference between those three?
Nevermind, thanks mate, I hope it won't break again

[zmook]

Is it really that big of a difference between those three?

Well, default persistent.my_key = "p" is not a Python statement, so I'm not surprised the last one didn't work. And also, since 'default newvar' is syntactic sugar for:

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label start:
	if not hasattr(store, 'newvar'):
	    newvar = 10
label after_load:
	if not hasattr(store, 'newvar'):
	    newvar = 10

it doesn't run at init time and so neither of those are going to do what you want.