How do I show another screen from within an if/then statement in a screen?

[Tessa]

Hi all. Struggling a bit with this.

Say I have this bit of code in my screen. I have a button that checks the answer of a puzzle, and an if/then statement follows to either display a continue button if correct (no issue here), or show a "Wrong!" text if incorrect. However, I'd like the "Wrong!" text to disappear after several seconds. I can't seem to find a way to do it. I tried putting the text into another screen, but is there a way to show a screen from within an if/then statement? Everything I've seen requires "action(Show("screen")", but that requires a button press. Any thoughts?

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    textbutton "Check Answer":
      selected False
      action SetScreenVariable("correct", is_matrix_equal(matrix, cmatrix, comparer))
      xalign 0.5
      yalign 0.8

    if correct is None: # not checked yet.
      pass
    else:
      if correct: # if correct then show a text then return after 2 seconds
        text "Correct!" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.5
        textbutton "CONTINUE" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.55 action Return()
      else:
        text "Wrong!" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.5

[plastiekk]

You could try it with timers like this:

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else:
        timer 0.01 repeat False action Show("wrong", transition=Dissolve(0.3))    # replace this with your text "wrong!" line
        

screen wrong():		# and add another screen
     text "Wrong!" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.5
    
     timer 1.0 repeat False action Hide ('wrong', transition=Dissolve(0.5))

[laure44]

You can do that in the same screen.

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    default show_wrong = True # put that at the beginning of your screen

    ....

    if correct: # if correct then show a text then return after 2 seconds
        text "Correct!" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.5
        textbutton "CONTINUE" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.55 action Return()
      else:
        if show_wrong:
            timer 2.0 action ToggleScreenVariable("show_wrong")
            text "Wrong!" xalign 0.9 yalign 0.5