renpy.input length not working?

[chesarty]

I have a line where the player picks their own name and I want the max. characters to be 10, but this doesn't work:

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    $ name = renpy.input("Before you can start, let's hear your name.", length=10)
    $ name = name.strip()
    menu name:
        "Did I hear that right, [name]?"

        "Yes":
            jump nameok
        "No":
            jump start
            

It lets you write as many letters as you want, going offscreen...

[xavimat]

I can't see any error in the input line. It should work.
Are you sure you have restarted your game after adding the "length" parameter?

On a side note, try to avoid using the same name for different things. You have "name" as a string and also as the name of the menu.

[chesarty]

I can't see any error in the input line. It should work.
Are you sure you have restarted your game after adding the "length" parameter?

On a side note, try to avoid using the same name for different things. You have "name" as a string and also as the name of the menu.

I rebooted the game multiple times and it didn't change the outcome :/

[Imperf3kt]

I can't see any error in the input line. It should work.
Are you sure you have restarted your game after adding the "length" parameter?

On a side note, try to avoid using the same name for different things. You have "name" as a string and also as the name of the menu.

I rebooted the game multiple times and it didn't change the outcome :/

As far as I am aware, Ren'Py doesn't accept anything after "menu"
https://renpy.org/doc/html/store_variab ... l#var-menu

So try changing your code to this. (I removed the word name after menu)

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    $ name = renpy.input("Before you can start, let's hear your name.", length=10)
    $ name = name.strip()
    menu:
        "Did I hear that right, [name]?"

        "Yes":
            jump nameok
        "No":
            jump start
            

[PyTom]

At least for me, on the main branch of Ren'Py, the example in the first post is working fine, it's not letting me enter more than 10 characters.

[chesarty]

Ok I'm back, and I think I figured something out:
When I add a blinking caret to the input screen (I don't automatically have it for some reason?), that's when the length argument stops working. When I get rid of the caret, the input only lets you type in 10 characters. What's the reason to this?

[PyTom]

Do you have the example of what you did to add the blinking caret?

[chesarty]

Do you have the example of what you did to add the blinking caret?

For the input screen I added this line:

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            input caret "blink"

and defined the animation blink.

Turns out, since I only need one input in the whole game, I decided to add "input length 10" into the input screen itself instead of the one particular menu. Playing around with the order of these eventually got me to successfully get everything working as it should. There was a little bug where if I put "input caret blink" before "input length 10", the input text would go on a separate line from the caret...
Anyhow, it's all working now!

[Alex]

...

Try this sample

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image blink:
    Solid("#0c0")
    size (20, 3)
    blink_tr
    
transform blink_tr:
    yalign 1.0
    block:
        alpha 1.0
        linear 0.5 alpha 0.0
        linear 0.5 alpha 1.0
        repeat
        
screen test_input():
    frame:
        xysize(300, 100)
        align(0.05, 0.2)
        hbox:
            align(0.0, 0.5)
            text ">>: " color "#0c0" size 35
            input length 10 caret 'blink' color "#fff" size 35

        
# The game starts here.
label start:
    "..."
    call screen test_input
    $ res = _return
    "[res] ?!"