How to disable "click to fill the textbox" for unseen dialogue?

[Blake337]

So I've been looking for an hour on Google and can't find any solutions for this.

You know how in some visual novels, when the text is being displayed in the dialogue box, you can't click to just speed it up and show it all at once? How do you do that in Renpy? At least for unseen text.

I want to be able to pace the game how I want to, instead of letting people mash through the dialogue. So, only letting the player click once the dialogue is done showing.

Thanks for the help.

[Imperf3kt]

Apply a hard pause.
This isn't particularly recommended, but oh well.

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    e "And now you will be forced to wait for the next line."
    $renpy.pause(hard=True)
    e "Ha ha ha ha ha."
    

You could probably leverage renpy.seen to work out whether to apply the pause or not.

[Blake337]

Apply a hard pause.
This isn't particularly recommended, but oh well.

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    e "And now you will be forced to wait for the next line."
    $renpy.pause(hard=True)
    e "Ha ha ha ha ha."
    

You could probably leverage renpy.seen to work out whether to apply the pause or not.

So I can only do it by adding that line of code after literally every dialogue?

[Imperf3kt]

As best I know, yes.

[Blake337]

As best I know, yes.

It didn't work. All it does is make the game stuck after the textbox disappears.

[Imperf3kt]

You might need to add a time to the pause.
(1, hard=True)
Where "1" is one second.

[trooper6]

There are a couple of things going on here.
First you want to use slow_abortable false.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... _abortable

This is an example of me using it for one of the characters in my game:

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define b = Character('[barb_name]', image="barber", color="#994411", what_color="#FFFFCC",
    what_slow_cps=19, what_slow_abortable=False)

That what_slow_abortable is what you want. With that variable false, the slow text won't fill in when they click...but I do believe it'll just advance. Mine doesn't because I made a complicated no advance thing.

[Blake337]

There are a couple of things going on here.
First you want to use slow_abortable false.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... _abortable

This is an example of me using it for one of the characters in my game:

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define b = Character('[barb_name]', image="barber", color="#994411", what_color="#FFFFCC",
    what_slow_cps=19, what_slow_abortable=False)

That what_slow_abortable is what you want. With that variable false, the slow text won't fill in when they click...but I do believe it'll just advance. Mine doesn't because I made a complicated no advance thing.

Yeah, it just makes it so that when I click, instead of filling the box, it just goes to the next one, which is actually worse. Were you able to make it work like I said I wanted it?

[Blake337]

You might need to add a time to the pause.
(1, hard=True)
Where "1" is one second.

That just creates an unskippable pause after the box disappears, it has nothing to do with what I want.

[trooper6]

Yeah, it just makes it so that when I click, instead of filling the box, it just goes to the next one, which is actually worse. Were you able to make it work like I said I wanted it?

I explain it all in this post of mine here: viewtopic.php?p=476829#p476829
Take that code and put it in a fresh project and try it out.