Hiding textbox on Android Devices?

[JimPanse]

Hey guys,

just a quick questions out of curiosity. I've noticed that there isn't a hide button for the textbox on Android devices. It also seems like there is no gesture or tap sequence that would hide the textbox.

Doesn't Renpy allow this in general on mobile devices (or Android only) or is there a special setting for that anywhere?

Kind Regards

[dasauto1]

I'm not sure if this helps but you can make an if statement to know what platform the user is currently using.

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if renpy.variant("android") : ...

[Imperf3kt]

Hey guys,

just a quick questions out of curiosity. I've noticed that there isn't a hide button for the textbox on Android devices. It also seems like there is no gesture or tap sequence that would hide the textbox.

Doesn't Renpy allow this in general on mobile devices (or Android only) or is there a special setting for that anywhere?

Kind Regards

By default, there is no button for this (H still works if you plug un a USB keyboard or use a bluetooth keyboard)

You could assign it to a gesture.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/gesture.html

For example, this will assign rollback to swiping right, and roll-forward to swiping left

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define config.gestures = { "e" : "rollback" , "w" : "rollforward" }
define config.dispatch_gesture = None

I'm not sure how to get it to do what you need (hide the say screen), but this might work. I haven't fiddled with gestures in a long time, so this may be inaccurate.
https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/keymap.html

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define config.gestures = { "e" : "hide_windows" }
define config.dispatch_gesture = None

You can set it to any combination you want. If you want people to draw a clockwise square, starting by moving right for it to work, use e_s_w_n, for example.

[tiya_nofurita]

just make a button somewhere that define HideInterface()

[JimPanse]

Thanks guys for all your answers, that really helped me out.

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define config.gestures = { "e" : "hide_windows" }
define config.dispatch_gesture = None

I went for your solution Imperf3kt and it seems to work fine. Set the gesture config to "n" and tested it on my phone.
Now when I slide up, all of the interface is hidden. That's really cool, so thanks a bunch mate