[RESOLVED] Changing screen modality

[Chiligoat]

Hallo! I'm driving myself up the wall trying to find a way to swap the modality of my screens outside of that first time defining them. I'm only a week new to Ren'py and am very much enjoying learning it, but for this one I've been trawling through forum posts and the cookbook for hours now and just can't seem to find a solution.

To be more specific, I'm clicking on an imagemap's hotspot (eg., a window, a couch) to jump label so that it can throw up some descriptive text. But of course, for as long as the image map's screen remains modal, the text can't progress or be removed once read. I'd love to just call a python function or something similar to SetVariable("screenname", modality="False"), but I'm at a genuine loss.
(This all in an attempt to figure out an on-hover tooltip, and on-click longer description, but the screen modality is what I'm really asking for help with!)

If anyone's got the time, I'd really appreciate some assistance!

[philat]

Not really. There's probably another, better way to do whatever it is you want to do.

[rames44]

Are you trying to have it look like the user clicks somewhere and dialog progresses as if the image map was still there?

If so, you could call the (modal) screen, have it jump to the label, and have the label use a “scene” statement to put up the same background the screen uses. The screen will have disappeared, but if the screen’s background is the same as the scene you put up, this won’t be visible to the user.

[Alex]

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Also check this - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=48359&p=478985#p478960

[Chiligoat]

[...]you could call the (modal) screen, have it jump to the label, and have the label use a “scene” statement to put up the same background the screen uses.[...]

This is actually exactly what I've been doing to make things flow properly, but it just seemed so clumsy and convoluted! The idea of just switching a True to a False seemed so much cleaner and far less liable to get mixed up in which images and screens are actually up. Thank you for the suggestion, though, because it makes me feel better about using this method.

Also check this

Yeah, that's very similar to how I have my navigation buttons work. The image map I made to allow the player to interact with the environment but at this point I'm starting to think that just smacking image buttons in there instead and not having to deal with the on/off modality of a main screen is much easier. Thank you!