How can I make my character talk, inside a screen?

[starlingmaximilian]

Hi, I would like my character to say something when you click on a imagebutton.

Right now I'm trying to use: action Show("say(" " , "Whatever")") but this isnt working.
As you can see, I'm trying to call the default say screen that already comes with renpy. The code is as follows.

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screen grabscreen():
            frame:
                xalign 0.6 yalign 0.8
                vbox:
                    textbutton "Keep it":
                        action SetVariable("open", True) , Hide("keys") , Show("dish") , Hide("grabscreen") , Show("say(" ","Now I'll be able to open the door")")
                    textbutton "leave it alone":
                        action Hide("key") , Show("dish") , Hide("grabscreen")

Right now I'm not using the who parameter in the say screen because it's also giving me an error, the the most important thing for me would be to be able to use the say screen.

[RicharDann]

To use Show(), you need to pass the screen name as a string, then an optional transition argument, and then arguments or keyword for that screen separately. See here.

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Show("say", who=" ", what="Now I'll be able to open the door")

[starlingmaximilian]

Thank you so much!

I still have a proble though, the style of the text doesn't match the style of the game.
Instead, it looks plain text, without any kind of formating.



Even more, if I try to use a character to speak, it gets even worse.



Also, for some reason, the dialogue window doesn't go away when I click (like it always does).
Does this have a solution?

[Alex]

...Does this have a solution?

Yes - not use it like this.

Try to make a label and call it from your screen.

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screen test_999_scr():
    vbox:
        align(0.1,0.1)
        textbutton "Eileen" action Call("my_label", char=e, txt="Hello!", from_current=True)
        textbutton "Lucy" action Call("my_label", char=l, txt="Hi!", from_current=True)
        null
        textbutton "Close" action [Return(), Hide("test_999_scr")]

label my_label(char, txt):
    char "[txt]"
    return

label start:
    
    "..."
    show screen test_999_scr
    $ ui.interact()
    "?!"

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_actions.html#Call
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/statemen ... renpy.call
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_p ... i.interact

[starlingmaximilian]

Thank you, so much!! It's perfect now.
I'm reading the docs you provided, specially the "ui.interact" one because that is completely new to me, not something that you usually see in renpy tutorials... By the way, It wasn't necccesary to use in order to make the character speak! I just created the label as you told me (with parameters "char, txt")

I don't understand what "from_current=True" does... rading the documentation it says that when True, it runs again the same statement, but I really don't understand how it's being used here, would you mind to please explain?

Thanks again, I was so upset for not being able to do this that I had dreams with it, I'm not kidding you.

[Alex]

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$ ui.interact()

Well, you need it to make game waits for something returning from the screen, otherwise the game can be advanced through by clicking. And in this case setting 'modal' property of the screen doesn't work right, 'cause you want to show some character's speaking and player should be able to click through it.

And since we 'call' a label with character talking, 'from_current' property makes the game return to the same line where 'call' was made (in this sample the line with '$ ui.interact()') and not to the next line.