How to change ui.input into a button?

[namastaii]

I've got the ui.input to work as a text entry on screen, however I don't want it to freeze at the text entry..I want the button part to be enabled so the text entry only works when its selected..

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... s/ui.input

I don't understand what I put for button in the parenthesis, all it gives me for an example is button=None

[namastaii]

Can I bump my own thread?

*bump*

[xela]

A lot of the people here are not native English speakers, you can bump your own thread but I for once still don't have a clue about what you're asking

[namastaii]

It's for programming.

[xavimat]

I agree with xela.
Could you explain what do you want to do?
I mean, not "I want to use an ui.xxx for something", but "I want to do XXX".
I'm not familiar with old ui. functions, but I presume that screen language can do what you want.

[namastaii]

I just need to know what I properly put after button= because the only instructions the renpy site gives is if I want it set to false like so: ui.input(button=None) I just want the UI input to be selectable but I can't figure out the right syntax. It's a text box like raw input.

[nyaatrap]

ui.input is rarely used recently. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#input is what you want to implement instead of old ui functions. Unless you're a python wizard, there's no reason to use old ui functions, and it's hard to give you an advice.

[xela]

I think it wants a button instance or possibly anything that has hover states. I've read the input code and it looks like it will allow input only when you hover over that button.

[namastaii]

The problem with that is that is ren'py language. Which means I can't mix the ui python screen with ren'py statements. Plus, that input statement doesn't have button capability XD

[namastaii]

Plus that shows up in dialogue. I need it on screen.

[nyaatrap]

I think a button can have an input as its child and you can control it to apply button properties in screen language. Anyway, What is your current code?

[namastaii]

I figured out how to make it work just had to define a screen outside.

[namastaii]

How would I go about adding a button argument? Because I have to input boxes, I need the person to be able to select each one separately..because its definitely not doing that right now

[nyaatrap]

It's hard to guess what's you're doing without seeing any codes nor an screenshot what you want to accomplish ...

[namastaii]

Code: Select all

screen input_firstName:


    
    hbox xpos 200 ypos 200:
        focus input default " "
        $ first_name = input

I'm assuming it goes like this. But I can't see the text box so I'm trying to change it around so theres a background on the textbox