[SOLVED] Hover to Check Affection Points?

[Syphe]

Greetings~ I have a question regarding how to show affection points in another screen that can be accessed from the quick menu.
I am hoping that hovering over a picture of a character would show the dialogues of said character to determine how close they are to you.

So, what I have so far is to use imagemap.

This is an example of the screen background:


And then when you hover over the character, it would show a bubble speech like this:


My question is... Is it possible to use the if statements in screens.rpy considering all the love points are scripted in the script.rpy? As in, is there any way to call it over? I don't quite understand the difference of these things yet and whether or not they're separated.

My second question would be... Can one script several hover pictures? Due to hovering over specific hotspots would show a different image. Or perhaps I shouldn't use hover at all and just let people click on the characters to go to another screen... hmm...

All help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

[philat]

1. Renpy reads all the files and does not care where you put something -- i.e. you can jump to labels in different files or call functions from different files or whatever. Variables are also not siloed in different files.

2. Conceptually, what you want is the hovered action for hotspots to show another screen with the information you want, and unhovered to hide it. See here for more on how to do that: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#hotspot

The code would end up looking something like this.

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hotspot (223, 202, 92, 22) action [something] hovered [Show("screen_name")] unhovered [Hide("screen_name")]

You just have to add whatever dialogue, etc. you need to the screen you're hiding and showing, and use variables to bring up the right one.

[Syphe]

Ahhhh, thank you so much!! Much appreciation!

After several tests, I find it preferable to use the mousearea function since all the screen does is hover over things and there's no clicking function.
Now my code looks like:

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screen chibimenus:
    imagemap:
        ground "menu_girls_ground.png"
        
        mousearea:
            area (84, 63, 159, 219)
            hovered Show("chibifel", transition=dissolve)
            unhovered Hide("chibifel", transition=dissolve)
        
screen chibifel:
    if fel_love == 0:
        add "menu_fel_idle.png"
    if fel_love == 1:
        add "menu_fel_1.png"

Once again, thank you!