Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

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Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

#1 Post by Nekto_K »

Hello. I don't know how to realize several textboxes in different bubbles (like in a comics/manga) that are showing one by one (on click). Example:

1) show phraseX of Character1
2) show phraseY of Character2 (phraseX of Character1 is still showing)
3) replace phraseX of Character1 with phraseZ (phraseY of Character2 is still showing)
4) hide phraseY of Character2 (phraseZ of Character1 is still showing)
and so on.

I was thinking about (multiple=х), but all of them are showing simultaneously, and tags like {w} doesn't work with it.
I was thinking about ParameterizedText for each phrase, but this is a little troubled when there is a hundreds phrases with different styles.

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Re: Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

#2 Post by philat »

If you have infinite possible styles/placements, then there's really no way around it. Either a screen where you feed in styles manually (you would have to show the screens manually rather than using say statements, but you can show multiple iterations of a screen or have multiple similar screens (say1, say2, and so forth) to show simulataneously) or ParameterizedText.

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Re: Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

#3 Post by Ibitz »

You can always design your dialogue as text bubbles or boxes in the same way as sprites and then show them that way wherever you want. You can animate them and simulate text messages or whatever you need.
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Re: Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

#4 Post by Nekto_K »

Ibitz wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:11 pm You can always design your dialogue as text bubbles or boxes in the same way as sprites and then show them that way wherever you want. You can animate them and simulate text messages or whatever you need.
Can you bring an example of code for this?

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Re: Several textboxes NOT simultaneously

#5 Post by Andredron »

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define sh = Character('Shino', 
    color="9966cc", 
    window_background = Frame("textbox3.png", 0, 0), #Your custom textbox.
    window_left_margin = 320,
    window_right_margin = 10,
    window_top_margin = 70,
    window_bottom_margin = 500,
    window_left_padding = 60,
    window_right_padding = 10,
    window_top_padding = 70,
    window_bottom_padding = 75,
    ctc="ctc_blink")


label start:
    sh "text" 

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17232#p225925

Else:

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=50153

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