make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

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make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#1 Post by LiveTurkey »

I have the following imagebutton

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############################## Corridor Four Door Options Screen ###################################### 
screen hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions:
    imagebutton:
        idle "backgrounds/transparent.png"
        action [Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions")]
            
    imagebutton:                             
        idle "boxes/corridorFourG.png"
        hover "boxes/corridorFourH.png"
        action [Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions"), Hide ("hallwayThreeOptions"), Jump ("corridorFour")]
        xpos 760
        ypos 890
and the following variable

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default introductionOver = False
I want something like this to happen

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        action [Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions"), Hide ("hallwayThreeOptions"), if (introductionOver ) Jump ("corridorFour") else player "I really shouldn't miss my first class"]
That code fragment doesn't work for multiple reasons. Basically I want inside of the action part of an imagebutton, for it to check a variable. If it's true it does what it is supposed to do. If it is not true, the main character says something and the player is not allowed to go to corridorFour. Is there any way to do this elegantly and without creating a new label just for this check?

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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#2 Post by Remix »

Almost...

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action [ Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions"), 
             Hide ("hallwayThreeOptions"), 
             If( introductionOver, 
                 Jump ("corridorFour"), # True action
                 Function( renpy.say, "Eileen", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" ) # False action
             ) ]
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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

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Remix wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:17 pm Almost...

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action [ Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions"), 
             Hide ("hallwayThreeOptions"), 
             If( introductionOver, 
                 Jump ("corridorFour"), # True action
                 Function( renpy.say, "Eileen", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" ) # False action
             ) ]
Thank you so much!

Is there any way to make the true or false actions longer than one line?

Like for example lets say for the false action I want char A to say something, char B to say something and char c, to say something.

Will this work?

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action [ Hide ("hallwayThreeCorridorFourDoorOptions"), 
             Hide ("hallwayThreeOptions"), 
             If( introductionOver, 
                 Jump ("corridorFour"), # True action
                 Function( renpy.say, "A", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" ) # False action
                 Function( renpy.say, "B", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" ) # False action
                 Function( renpy.say, "C", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" ) # False action
             ) ]
Do I have to include the multiple lines inside a bracket or something?

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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#4 Post by Remix »

Just put each multi-action in a list []

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action If( condition,
                [ multiple true actions with commas between each ],
                [ multiple false actions with commas between each ] )
Note though that afaik actions like renpy.say will end the interaction and thus end the action. It would be far better to just Jump to an interim label and do stuff there.
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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#5 Post by LiveTurkey »

Remix wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:57 pm Just put each multi-action in a list []

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action If( condition,
                [ multiple true actions with commas between each ],
                [ multiple false actions with commas between each ] )
Note though that afaik actions like renpy.say will end the interaction and thus end the action. It would be far better to just Jump to an interim label and do stuff there.
I tried implementing your code,

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    if(scheduleAquired): 
        imagebutton:
            idle "tempButtons/hallwayThreeHallwayTwoDoorButtonGround.png"
            hover "tempButtons/hallwayThreeHallwayTwoDoorButtonHover.png"
            action [If(enteredHomeroom,
                        Show("hallwayThreeHallwayTwoDoorOptions"),
                        Function( renpy.say, "mc", "I check my map. This is not the way to Homeroom. I can't be late for my first class." )
            )]
            xpos 950        
            ypos 300
but my game crashes and it tells me "Exception: Cannot start an interaction in the middle of an interaction, without creating new context"

Am I missing something?

After doing some research it seems to be because I am calling the screen in which this imagebutton is contained and not showing it.

I think I'm supposed to use

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renpy.call_in_new_context(label, *args, **kwargs)
but I'm not sure where or how.

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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#6 Post by LiveTurkey »

The closest I have gotten is the following line

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Function(ui.callsinnewcontext("say", "Eileen", "I really shouldn't miss my first class" )) # False action
but it says it could not find the label "say"

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Re: make a character say something inside of an imagebutton?

#7 Post by Remix »

Well, say is a screen, not a label.

I still say, It would be far better to just Jump to an interim label and do stuff there, rather than try to juggle with contexts while handling an interaction.

Remember that a label is just a reference to a script position, it does not have to include dialogue or sprites. You can jump or call a label just to handle binding a value to a range if you like or to toggle a date or to continue the story....
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