Imagemap Saving error

[Morhighan]

I was testing out my game, which I just programmed to have an imagemap main menu. The imagemap works perfectly.
Imagemap code:

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init -2 python:

    layout.imagemap_main_menu("ground.jpg", "hover.jpg",
        [ (576, 289, 721, 360, "Start Game"),
          (591, 402, 733, 457, "Load Game"),
          (606, 508, 772, 544, "Quit") ]
          )

label main_menu:

    jump main_menu_screen

However, once I am inside the game, and perform a "right click," however, I get this message:

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I'm sorry, but an exception occured while executing your Ren'Py
script.

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

While running game code:
 - script at line 38 of C:\Users\Morgana\Desktop\Darker than You Know/game/script.rpy
 - python at line 194 of renpy-6.10.2/common/00library.rpy.
 - script at line 328 of renpy-6.10.2/common/_layout/classic_load_save.rpym

Thank you for any assistance you might provide!

Also, for visual reference, this is what the menu looks like:

[Aleema]

I don't think that's how main menu imagemaps work. You shouldn't have to do this part:

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label main_menu:

    jump main_menu_screen

Just the imagemap. What's around line 38 of your script.rpy?

[Morhighan]

Thank you, I'll check that. It seemed to have worked with it, so I'll see how it operates without it.

Line 38 is the beginning of the novel, basically.

[azureXtwilight]

Uhh, the imagemap main menu should be in the options.rpy, did you put it in script.rpy?

[Morhighan]

It's in the options.rpy area, thank you though for checking. Since I changed it over to imagemap, the saving function has been obsolete.

[Morhighan]

Sorry for the double post...
Anyway, I removed the imagemap only to discover that the save function still didn't work, with or without. I can't enter the "right click" menu jump, and that is the problem, I think.

[Jake]

Anyway, I removed the imagemap only to discover that the save function still didn't work, with or without. I can't enter the "right click" menu jump, and that is the problem, I think.

The error message you're getting:

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TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

suggests that Ren'Py is trying to call a function, but the thing it thinks is a function isn't a function, it's a string.

Here is an example of one way that can happen, from the interactive Python prompt:

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>>> abs(-5)
5
>>> abs = "some string"
>>> abs
'some string'
>>> abs(-5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Normally, 'abs' is a function which returns the absolute value of a number. However, if you don't know this and you create a variable called 'abs' in your game, you'll overwrite the function, meaning that if any code anywhere else in your game tries to use the 'abs' function, it'll actually try and call the variable you created, which won't work.

Another way you can do it is to pass a string variable to some part of Ren'Py which isn't expecting a string:

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    $ myString = "some text"
    
    show mySprite at myString

- this doesn't work and gives the same error.


Similar problems have been reported before, and the ones which have been solved have had the same cause: someone's overwriting a pre-defined Python name for one of their variables, giving variables names like "str".

There's no really easy way to find a big list of all the names you should avoid, and IMO it's one of the very annoying things about Python, that it doesn't warn you when you accidentally overwrite a function or whatever, but it's a working-as-designed problem. If you post the full traceback you're getting then it might be possible to track down the name you've likely overwritten in this case, but as a general rule, give your variables longer, more-descriptive names (it's a good idea anyway!) and you're less likely to overwrite Python pre-defined items.

[Morhighan]

Thank you. I've been trying to check over the variables (I haven't done too many) to see what I might have done. Thank you!