On screen button to call inventory FIXED AGAIN!

[seldompie]

Hi,

I've been having a pretty good run of getting Renpy to do all I need of it, but I've got to the point where I need to get into more complex stuff, and it's baffling the heck out of me, even though I'm sure it's something simple.

What I'd like is a permanent on screen button that, when pressed, clears the screen and displays some text that tells the play what their current stats and inventory are. (Game uses both nvl and normal mode)

If someone could type up a script example, that'd be great - I've managed to work out most of the stuff so far just by fiddling with things and poking at the demo program, but the button coding is just making my head spin.

Thanks!

[astrobread]

Well this is pretty much exactly what I've been doing for the last couple of days, and I have some sample code in this post here (link)

If you take the first two code blocks you have the means to
1) Show the inventory button
2) When the button is clicked, show a full screen overlay with stuff on it. It doesn't clear the main game window, but it does cover it up and prevent the user from progressing the story until they exit.

In the second code block at that page, you can get rid of the python MakeLine() block and the transform ttfadein. Those were just related to an odd issue I was struggling with.

Also to exit from that inventory screen and return to your story, something like this would work: textbutton "Return" action Return("1")

[saguaro]

Here's a basic template in screen language, if you need something a little less complex.

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screen overlay:
    frame:
        xalign 1.0 yalign 0.0
        hbox:
            textbutton "Inventory/Stats" action Show("inventory")

screen inventory:
    modal True
    frame:
        xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
        vbox:
            label "Inventory"
            text "Items Here"
            label "Stats"
            text "Stats here"
            textbutton "Close" action Hide("inventory")

label start:
    show screen overlay

You can learn more about screens here: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

[seldompie]

That works super-great, thanks a lot! It's actually snazzier than what I was trying to do - I was thinking of just having the button trigger a "call" to a nvl clear command and have the inventory on that screen with a return at the end. This is fancier looking though. And it seems having a "call" after "action" isn't allowed anyway.

But this is great, thanks!

[seldompie]

Okay, the inventory on a screen looks great, but I was wanting the player to be able to select to use say, a health up item while on the inventory screen. My ideal code would be something like this -

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label inno:
 screen overlay:
    frame:
        xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0
        hbox:
            textbutton "Status" action call invento

##############

label invento:
 nvl clear
 " You have [monkey] monkeys and [gins] bottles of gin"
 menu:
  "Drink some gin" if gins>0:
      nvl clear
      " You drink a  bottle of gin. Tasty!"
      $gins = gins - 1
      $drunk = drunk + 1
      jump invento

  "Okay":
     return
  

.. And that'd take the player back to wherever they were. I can't use call after an action though, and while I figured out how to use a Jump, after viewing the inventory screen, it just dumps you back to the main menu. Is there any way to use a call here?


EDIT - haha, just realised a guy about 2 posts down has just solved the same problem I needed a ui.callsinnewcontext. Everything is sweet again.