Need help getting characters displayed on screen!

[BigFish]

I want to get which character is at a certain position. Like, something similar to " character_at_left() = 'eileen happy' " (Obviously, that's psudeocode, but you get the idea ) I've looked all through the manual (including reading over the function index many times), but can't find anything like this. Get_at_list won't work because all it does is return the position for a character's name, and doesn't work with specific expressions.

The reason it needs to be this specific is that I want to develop a function that can make lips move while the text is typing like Phoenix Wright, and the method I'd use for this would be: It finds which slot has the right character in it, then, while the text is typing, it changes the image in that slot to the slot's current image plus " t". Then, after the text is done typing, it would change it back to the original. So, it would work kind of like this:

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image eileen happy = "e1.png"
image eileen happy t = Animation("e1t.png",.1,"e2t.png",.1)

$ e = Character('Eileen',callback=lips)

show eileen happy at left
e "I'm talking!"

I have a prototype of the callback, but it can only get the position of the character, not the right expression or anything, so it's just a fixed expression.

Thanks in advance for any help given.

[PyTom]

This information isn't kept around by Ren'Py. You can define your own config.show and config.hide functions that store this information in a form you can use. (Be sure to have them call renpy.show and renpy.hide.)