How to disable hover_sound of a textbutton on a specific screen?

[vorgbardo]

I'm using the default Main and Game Menu Screens. I've added hover_sound and activate_sound to the textbuttons. That works otherwise nicely, but the hover_sound activates also in cases where the hover colour does not. For example, if the user is on Preferences page and hovers over the menu textbuttons, hover colour does not activate for the Preferences textbutton, but the hover_sound does. I tried to find out where the code for the smart hover colour is, but failed. 1) Anyone able to point out how the default Menu Screen knows not to use the hover colour for the textbutton of the current screen? 2) What is the smartest way to add similar logic to the hover_sound?

Example code of current Preferences textbutton:

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textbutton _("PREFERENCES"):
    hover_sound "audio/hover1e.mp3"
    activate_sound "audio/blip1.mp3"
    action ShowMenu("preferences")

[Andredron]

Write a condition for the button

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textbutton "Unseen text":

    action Preference("skip", "toggle") 
            	
    if pppp == "True":
        activate_sound "audio/effects/sound_01.ogg"
    else:
        pass

We register the screen in which the variable will change, and we will register the back button, change the value of the variable

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screen ereasr:
    $ pppp = True
    
............. 


    textbutton _("return"):
        action [SetField("pppp" , False),Return()]
        
       # Or:
       
       textbutton _("return"):
        action [SetVariable("pppp" , False),Return()]

[vorgbardo]

Thank you for the answer! I'm not quite sure how to use it to solve my question, I probably just don't understand it. Nonetheless, I currently solved the problem like this:

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textbutton _([preferencestext]):
    activate_sound "audio/blip1.mp3"
    action ShowMenu("preferences")
    if not renpy.get_screen("preferences"):
        hover_sound "audio/hover1e.mp3"

I'm still wondering if there'd be some way to automate this more without the need to write that code for every similar navigation button in the game, because there is clearly some kind of automation already in place for the hover colour in similar situations. If there is a way let me know, but this now works.

Another thing I'd like to add to this is underlining the navigation textbutton text for the textbutton of the current location, to make it more clear that the user is now on that particular page. I tried the following, but it does not work. What would be the correct way to create the underlining (non-working line is the last one)?

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textbutton _([preferencestext]):
    activate_sound "audio/blip1.mp3"
    action ShowMenu("preferences")
    if not renpy.get_screen("preferences"):
        hover_sound "audio/hover1e.mp3"
    else
         underline True

[enaielei]

I'm still wondering if there'd be some way to automate this more without the need to write that code for every similar navigation button in the game, because there is clearly some kind of automation already in place for the hover colour in similar situations.

You can also use screens.

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screen nav_btn(text, screen):
  textbutton _([text]):
    activate_sound "audio/blip1.mp3"
    action ShowMenu(screen)
    if not renpy.get_screen(screen):
        hover_sound "audio/hover1e.mp3"

screen test():
  vbox:
    use nav_btn("Prefs", "preferences")
    use nav_btn("Load", "load")

What would be the correct way to create the underlining (non-working line is the last one)?

Prefix your styles with text_. underline -> text_underline.

[vorgbardo]

Prefix your styles with text_. underline -> text_underline.

Thank you, this worked perfectly! And thank you also for the screens tip.