About ui.imagebutton

[Glazed Donuts]

I would like to have a button that remains on the screen that says "Return to previous room" which is in the form of a ui.imagebutton. Basically, no matter where you are, even if there is text/dialogue on the screen, whenever you press the button, it will "Jump" to a different section/line of code depending on where the player currently is. So for example:

Player is in the bedroom. The previous room they entered was the bathroom.
I wanted the 'return to previous room' to be able to return the player to the bathroom when they click the button.

Is this possible to do in Ren'py? Can I just make one single python block that has the ui.imagebutton information for this skip button? or would I need to re-create a ui.imagebutton python block for every scene in the house in order for it to know which room the player entered last?

I hope this makes sense.

[Aleema]

If you want it to stay, you can make it an overlay, which is completely separate from the blocks you're writing in. Similar to showing a date on the screen, but just an imagebutton. You'd have to keep track of what the previous room was manually, though. I think. Unless it's very linear and predictable. But if there's two ways to get into a room, you'll probably need to set a variable like "previous_room" to equal the name of the label you want to jump to everytime your story progresses. And then set the ui.jumps(previous_room) to hold that variable. Make sure you put "global previous_room" under your overlay definition so it knows to look for that variable outside of itself.

Make sense, or no?

edit: here's what I mean:

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init:
    $ previous_room = "labelname"
    $ can_jump = True

    python hide:
        def room_jumper():
            global previous_room
            
            if can_jump:
                ui.textbutton("Previous Room", clicked=ui.jumps(previous_room))

        config.overlay_functions.append(room_jumper)

[Glazed Donuts]

I think so. Thank you!