Label starts in the middle

[hapciupalit]

Is it possible to create a way for the label to skip seen parts of a label?
I'm doing a chat system and you can exit anytime you want and open it the same way.
My problem is that everytime I open the chat label it starts from the beginning. I'm thinking on adding some id's to each of the lines or something, but I'm not sure how to skip to that part.

Anyone has some ideas on how to do that?

[Per K Grok]

Is it possible to create a way for the label to skip seen parts of a label?
I'm doing a chat system and you can exit anytime you want and open it the same way.
My problem is that everytime I open the chat label it starts from the beginning. I'm thinking on adding some id's to each of the lines or something, but I'm not sure how to skip to that part.

Anyone has some ideas on how to do that?

You could have a variable that starts of at 0. For each segment under the label you add + 1 to the variable. Each segment starts with an if segment.

if var_Id<1:
[do segment 1]
$ var_Id +=1

if var_Id<2:
[do segment 2]
$ var_Id +=1

if var_Id<3:
[do segment 3]
$ var_Id +=1

Next time you go to the label it will not play segments that already has been done.

[hapciupalit]

Is it possible to create a way for the label to skip seen parts of a label?
I'm doing a chat system and you can exit anytime you want and open it the same way.
My problem is that everytime I open the chat label it starts from the beginning. I'm thinking on adding some id's to each of the lines or something, but I'm not sure how to skip to that part.

Anyone has some ideas on how to do that?

You could have a variable that starts of at 0. For each segment under the label you add + 1 to the variable. Each segment starts with an if segment.

if var_Id<1:
[do segment 1]
$ var_Id +=1

if var_Id<2:
[do segment 2]
$ var_Id +=1

if var_Id<3:
[do segment 3]
$ var_Id +=1

Next time you go to the label it will not play segments that already has been done.

Perfect. Thank you. I got one more question. Won't many ifs screw the performance? If for example I have a chat of 100 lines.

[Alex]

Also, you could try to do it like

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default lbl_name = None

label chat:
    if lbl_name:
        jump expression lbl_name # or $ renpy.jump(lbl_name)
    chat chat chat
    $ lbl_name = "chat_1"

label chat_1:
    chat chat chat
    $ lbl_name = "chat_2"

label chat_2:
    chat chat chat
    $ lbl_name = "chat_end"

label chat_end:
    "...nothing to say anymore..."

[Per K Grok]

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I got one more question. Won't many ifs screw the performance? If for example I have a chat of 100 lines.

Writing those lines will probable be boring and tiring for you, but no problem for the computer to handle.

[hapciupalit]

Thank you both. I'll see which is the simplest solution for me to write the text with.