Change variable when mouse hover.

[Renpie]

Hello,

Is it possible to change some variable if you hover over something?

Lets say "target" is 0 by default and there's 2 pictures on screen. When you hover over picture 1 it changes "target" value to 1, but if you leave picture 1, it stays 1 and only by hovering picture 2 it changes "target" to 2 and visa versa. Is there a way?

I tried mousearea, but it doesn't allow this

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            mousearea:
                area (5, 295, 175, 50)
                hovered Show("buttons_skip")
                unhovered Hide("buttons_skip")
                action $ target = 1

if this is not possible to do, i have to make so many screens for every single button then..

[mobychan]

I guess you're looking for SetVariable?

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SetVariable("target", 1)

[Renpie]

I guess you're looking for SetVariable?

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SetVariable("target", 1)

It gives error if i try to put that in mousearea.

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File "game/script.rpy", line 34: u'action' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the mousearea statement.
    action SetVariable("target", 1)

[Alex]

You need to use it for the hovered property, like

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mousearea:
                area (5, 295, 175, 50)
                hovered [Show("buttons_skip"), SetVariable("target", 1)]
                unhovered Hide("buttons_skip")

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#sl-mousearea

[Renpie]

You need to use it for the hovered property, like

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mousearea:
                area (5, 295, 175, 50)
                hovered [Show("buttons_skip"), SetVariable("target", 1)]
                unhovered Hide("buttons_skip")

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#sl-mousearea

Nice, this does the trick, but for some reason button detection is very slow with mousearea. Most of time i have to pass over the button twice to make it show itself.

Anyway, thanks.