Annoying/inconsequental error at the start of every game

[chesarty]

(I'm just really spamming this forum today, aren't I?)

EDIT: after postin this, i realized my quickmenu no longer works even though i literally haven't touched it at all. dunno if it has something to do with this error.

I implemented a "Continue" button into my main menu using some cookbook code and for te most part it's working great. The button itself functions correctly, but a couple hours after I implemented the code, Ren'Py gives me this error message every time I click "New game" or "Continue".

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 301, in script call
    call expression "before_main_menu"
  File "game/script.rpy", line 68, in script
    call screen confirm (message = u "Are you sure you want to restart the game?", yes_action = Start (), no_action = Jump ("main_menu"))
  File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 526, in execute_call_screen
    args, kwargs = a.evaluate()
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/script.rpy, line 68)

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 301, in script call
    call expression "before_main_menu"
  File "game/script.rpy", line 68, in script
    call screen confirm (message = u "Are you sure you want to restart the game?", yes_action = Start (), no_action = Jump ("main_menu"))
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1947, in execute
    self.call("execute")
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1935, in call
    return renpy.statements.call(method, parsed, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\statements.py", line 277, in call
    return method(parsed, *args, **kwargs)
  File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 526, in execute_call_screen
    args, kwargs = a.evaluate()
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 188, in evaluate
    kwargs[k] = renpy.python.py_eval(v, locals=scope)
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 2033, in py_eval
    code = py_compile(code, 'eval')
  File "C:\Users\chesw\Documents\renpy-7.3.2-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 690, in py_compile
    raise e
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/script.rpy, line 68)

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.3.2.320
Lovesick 1.0
Wed Aug 21 21:25:23 2019

If I ignore the error message, the game continues normally so I don't understand what it's trying to tell me. Here's my code for the Continue button in my script.rpy file:

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label main_menu:
    call screen main_menu
label restart:
    call screen confirm (message = u "Are you sure you want to restart the game?", yes_action = Start (), no_action = Jump ("main_menu"))
### Auto-save activation:
init -1 python hide:
    config.has_autosave = True
init +1 python:
    class LoadMostRecent():

        def __init__(self):
            self.slot = renpy.newest_slot()

        def __call__(self):
            renpy.load(self.slot)

        def get_sensitive(self):
            return self.slot is not None

Is there something wrong with it? I also noticed my game has begun lagging quite a bit which is very annoying and it only started today after I implemented the continue button as well as a custom cursor for the game (I'm not sure which one of them is causing the lag, though?)
This is very annoying and takes up a lot of my time since I can't easily reload my game without getting the error. Has anyone had anything similar?

[namastaii]

Seems the cookbook code isn't very compatible and probably interferes with functions engrained into renpy

[chesarty]

Seems the cookbook code isn't very compatible and probably interferes with functions engrained into renpy

i wonder if there is a more updated version to this... to me, the continue button seems pretty important so i dont wanna just drop it

[namastaii]

What is the purpose of this button exactly?

[isobellesophia]

You can tell what exactly the purpose of that code, there might be something that can be renew again.

[namastaii]

Try removing the space between start and () and jump ()

[chesarty]

What is the purpose of this button exactly?

instead of having to choose a save file every time you want to continue a play session after closing the game, it picks up an autosave and continues from where you left off. pretty nifty! if it worked, that is

[IrinaLazareva]

What is the purpose of this button exactly?

instead of having to choose a save file every time you want to continue a play session after closing the game, it picks up an autosave and continues from where you left off. pretty nifty! if it worked, that is

viewtopic.php?t=34420#p388783

[isobellesophia]

Oh, there is also a another example if it is works for you.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=48154

I dont think it looks the same, but you can try it.

[Imperf3kt]

I currently just do this for a continue button. It works perfectly.


In your screen:

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    $recent_save = renpy.newest_slot(r"\d+")

    fixed:
        xpos 1450
        ypos 100
        
        if recent_save:
            $ recent_save_page, recent_save_name = recent_save.split("-")
            imagebutton:
                auto "gui/buttons/continue_%s.png"
                action FileLoad(recent_save_name, confirm=True, page=recent_save_page)

[chesarty]

Try removing the space between start and () and jump ()

Omg that actually fixed it. thank you sm!

EDIT: nevermind… it seems to have been a one-time fix and now it's erroring again

[chesarty]

Oh, there is also a another example if it is works for you.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=48154

I dont think it looks the same, but you can try it.

I'm using that exact tutorial. Neither of the codes work for me

[namastaii]

What's the current error code now

[chesarty]

What's the current error code now

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/script.rpy", line 73: is not terminated with a newline. (Check strings and parenthesis.)
        call screen confirm(message = u "Are you sure you want to start over?", yes_action = Start(), no_action = Jump("main_menu")

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.3.2.320
Fri Aug 23 06:45:16 2019

Here's my code on that one specific line:

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call screen confirm(message = u "Are you sure you want to start over?", yes_action = Start(), no_action = Jump("main_menu")

EDIT: i added a ) at the end of the line and now the error is back to the invalid syntax stuff.

[namastaii]

Yes it was missing another ) to close off the beginning (

Syntax for which code
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