Custom Say Screen, strange behavior with frames

[vitriolic_crux]

So I want a frame instead of a window for the say screen, so that the text box can grow and shrink according to what's inside it. My solution to this, which probably wouldn't work, is to try and replace the outer window of the say screen with a frame.

However, I'm seeing some very strange behavior from the frame. The background doesn't scale to fill the frame, and the text of the "who" and the "what" are overlapping one another. I can sort of understand why the text is breaking, but I do not understand why the frame background isn't scaling. And, just as strangely, when I create a frame without defining a background, instead of simply using the frame in the GUI folder, it shows nothing at all.

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screen say(who, what):
    # modal True
    zorder 80
    frame:
        xalign 0.5
        xsize 1680
        yoffset 860
        ymaximum 220
        id "window"
        # background "gui/frame.png"
        if who is not None:
            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "cybermenu"
                text who id "who"

        text what id "what" style "cybertext"


    ## If there's a side image, display it above the text. Do not display on the
    ## phone variant - there's no room.
    if not renpy.variant("small"):
        add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

Yes, I know it's a garbled mess. Still, that doesn't explain why the frame's behavior is all out of whack. If someone could explain why the frame is behaving this way, or could just point me to an example of someone setting a frame as a background, I would be very grateful.

[Remix]

Your frame: (container) would want a background that is a Frame() (displayable)

See: https://github.com/RenpyRemix/speech-bu ... ing-frames

Note though that your frame has id "window" which will cause it to take styles defined for that name