(Solved) Hide Window/Show Window will not work

[Zodiac_Stories]

I don't know what I am doing wrong,

I want to keep my textbox hidden, while keeping the text visible. But the Hide Window wont work.

How the code looks:https://sta.sh/0jxuuknh0xf

Can anyone help?

[m_from_space]

I don't know what I am doing wrong,

I want to keep my textbox hidden, while keeping the text visible. But the Hide Window wont work.

How the code looks:https://sta.sh/0jxuuknh0xf

Can anyone help?

The command "window hide" will hide the dialogue window (in other words the "say" screen). But of course the dialogue window will have to show again, if you're going to execute dialogue.

If you want to show text that is not dialogue (so it won't trigger the say screen), then create your own screen with text on it! An alternative is to create a character (or configure the narrator) that does not show a say screen background.

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define narrator = Character(None, window_background=None, ......)

[jeffster]

To make the textbox transparent for all characters, you can change styles in file "screens.rpy":

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style window:
    background None
    # other properties of this style

style namebox:
    background None
    # other properties of this style

Then to see the dialog text well, add text outlines. For example, dark outlines for white text could be:

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style say_label:
    # other properties of this style
    outlines [(3, "#3333"), (2, "#333"), (1, "#000")]

style say_dialogue:
    # other properties of this style
    outlines [(3, "#3333"), (2, "#333"), (1, "#000")]

PS. And you can set properties for characters or characters groups using the technique m_from_space mentioned:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue.htm ... er-objects

[Zodiac_Stories]

I don't know what I am doing wrong,

I want to keep my textbox hidden, while keeping the text visible. But the Hide Window wont work.

How the code looks:https://sta.sh/0jxuuknh0xf

Can anyone help?

The command "window hide" will hide the dialogue window (in other words the "say" screen). But of course the dialogue window will have to show again, if you're going to execute dialogue.

If you want to show text that is not dialogue (so it won't trigger the say screen), then create your own screen with text on it! An alternative is to create a character (or configure the narrator) that does not show a say screen background.

Code: Select all

define narrator = Character(None, window_background=None, ......)

Thanks! that worked perfectly!