[solved] Manually stop skipping

[menostorpe]

I've been trying to search the documentation for a line that will stop skipping - that is, players who have clicked the "skip" button should always stop skipping at certain points regardless of if they've read the text before.

In case my reasoning is wrong, let me explain the issue. The game contains a loop while players are on a navigation screen, which includes "$ renpy.pause (hard=True)". Players who are skipping forward and hit this report either freezes or crashes. Testing suggests to me that the game is still skipping when it hits the loop, so I thought it best to make sure it always stops when the player reaches that point. Is there a simple way to do this?

[Ocelot]

You migh be interested in renpy.choice_for_skipping function:

Tells Ren'Py that a choice is coming up soon. This currently has two effects:
        If Ren'Py is skipping, and the Skip After Choices preferences is set to stop skipping, skipping is terminated.
        An auto-save is triggered.

[menostorpe]

That seems like what I need, but I'm not sure what the actual syntax for using it is. I tried just putting it in verbatim and it didn't work. To be clear, I just pasted this in the appropriate place:

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renpy.choice_for_skipping()

[Ocelot]

It is a PYthon fuction. So it needs to be in Python statement: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/python.html

[menostorpe]

Ah, that didn't occur to me. For anyone else reading, you just need to put it in a python block or as a one-line statement:

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$ renpy.choice_for_skipping()

Thanks for the help!