Say screen hidden when call screen

[Zecyd]

Hello !
When i do a call screen in script.rpy (to ask for a choice) the buttons appear correctly but the say screen hides itself until the choice is made.
I'd like the player to be able to see the last sentence on the say screen to provide context, or remind him of what was just said.

Here is how I do it (simplified)

script.rpy

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label start:

	"Alice" "Hello you !"
	"Alice" "Would you like to change my name ?"
	call screen choice()
		 if _return == 0:
		 	"Alice" "That's good ! I love my name !"
		 else:
		 	"Alice" "Too bad, I don't know you well enough ..."
return

screen.rpy

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screen choice():
   	hbox:
        	xalign 0.5
        	yalign 0.8
        	spacing 120
        	vbox:
            		imagebutton auto "no_%s.png" action Return(0)
        	vbox:
            		imagebutton auto "yes_%s.png" action Return(1)

So in this example when the yes / no buttons appear, the window with the conversation disappears, until the player click on one answer. I'd like to have both on the screen at the same time.

Thanks in advance !

[Errilhl]

Why aren't you just using a menu...?

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menu:
    "Would you like to change my name?"
    "Yes":
         #do something
    "No":
         #do nothing

No need to call screens or anything like that

[Zecyd]

Thanks for the reply, I could do that, but if there's a quick way to achieve the same result while still using call screen, it could save me a lot of time for now.

The code sample I provided earlier was very simplified, just to be sure people could understand my problem, I'm not a english native speaker.
I ask the player for a lot of choices, with a lot of images, each one with a hover, and being able to write something like this :

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call screen choice("truth_%s.png", "lie_%s.png")

Is saving me a lot of time.

I'll have a look at 'menu:' and see if it can do everything I need and keep my code structure as I like it. In the meantime, it could be nice to know if it's possible using my way.

But thanks again for the tip !

[Edit] my bad.

[philat]

Setting interact to False (afaik, that is what's done behind the scenes when you use the caption for default menus).

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$ renpy.say("Alice", "Would you like to change my name?", interact=False)
call screen choice()

[Zecyd]

Hi, from what I gathered from the documentation and my quick test, say() interact=false only bypass the user input needed to print the next sentence.
When I pasted your example to check it out, the say() was almost impossible to read (displayed so fast) but the call() did hide the main window again.

The only way I found so far, very ugly thing to do but well... (if someone having the same issue finds this thread one day) is to copy paste your last sentence as an argument to the call() and display it using a text() above the buttons. It's horrible, I know.

Simplified code :

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"Alice" "Did you stole my wallet ?"
call screen choice("truth_%s.png", "lie_%s.png", "Did you stole my wallet ?")

screen choice(button1,button2,lastText):
    
    text (lastText)  xalign 0.5 yalign 0.6
    
    hbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.8
        spacing 300
        
        vbox:
		imagebutton auto button1 action Return(0)
	vbox:
                imagebutton auto button2 action Return(1)

I hope someone can provide a better way

I was thinking about catching the last push in history_list and printing it in the call(), but I can't seem to find how for now, and there is the possiblity that the last sentence printed on the screen will not be in the list yet anyway. Still searching ... ^^

[Remix]

There are 3 *little-known* functions in exports that might help...

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def do_reshow_say(who, what, interact=False):

    if who is not None:
        who = renpy.python.py_eval(who)

    say(who, what, interact=interact)
curried_do_reshow_say = curry(do_reshow_say)

def get_reshow_say(**kwargs):
    return curried_do_reshow_say(
        renpy.store._last_say_who,
        renpy.store._last_say_what,
        **kwargs)

def reshow_say(**kwargs):
    get_reshow_say()(**kwargs)

Oddly though, the only way I've had them work (yeah I need to learn more about Ren'py use of curry) is by just 'use' ing the say screen inside another and even then the alignment goes weird...

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screen a():
    text "A"
    use say(renpy.store._last_say_who, renpy.store._last_say_what)

Anyway, it might give you (or anyone else) some options to streamline the code...

[Remix]

On an aside...

I would advise copying the screen choice and renaming it as something else for the icon based ones... That way, normal menu: blocks would still work fine using choice

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screen icon_choice( buttons, reshow_say=True ):
    # do a reshow if needed (if you get it working ok)
    vbox:
        for idx,button in enumerate(buttons): # basically counts idx (from 0) while iterating
            imagebutton auto button action Return(idx)

[Remix]

philat's snippet works fine here... does your screen still try to jiggle the say screen?

If you really wanted to repeat the say, maybe a function call and pass the say info...

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init python:
    def icon_screen( who, what, buttons ):
        renpy.say( who, what, interact=False )
        renpy.call_screen( "icon_choice", buttons )

label start:
    "a"
    $ icon_screen( None, "words", ['a','b'] )

It just does what philat's does though... just in one call

[philat]

Hi, from what I gathered from the documentation and my quick test, say() interact=false only bypass the user input needed to print the next sentence.
When I pasted your example to check it out, the say() was almost impossible to read (displayed so fast) but the call() did hide the main window again.

Nope. Works; I've used it before. I don't know what else you may have changed to get the result you're getting.

[Zecyd]

A big thanks to both of you, it's working indeed.
I don't know why 'interact' didn't work previously for me, did something wrong, that's for sure.
I'm sorry if I came accross as ungrateful or dismissive.
I guess I needed someone to put it together for me !

Thanks again !