Giving two actions to an imagebutton [SOLVED]

[Meg']

Hello!

I'm using imagebuttons for the main menu of my game (yes, imagebuttons are as cool as the tutorial said ). I was wondering if I could add more than one action to an imagebutton?

My code for the imagebutton which is concerned:

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    imagebutton auto "gui/main_start_%s.png" xpos 450 ypos 300 action Start() at main_eff1

And the full code of my main menu:

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screen main_menu:

    tag menu

    add "main_fd.jpg"
    
    add "gui/forme1.png" xpos 333 ypos 520 at main_eff4
    
    add "gui/forme1.png" xpos 805 ypos 520 at main_eff5    

    imagebutton auto "gui/main_start_%s.png" xpos 450 ypos 300 action Start() at main_eff1

    imagebutton auto "gui/main_config_%s.png" xpos 800 ypos 500 action ShowMenu('preferences') at main_eff2

    imagebutton auto "gui/main_extras_%s.png" xpos 340 ypos 500 action Start('extras') at main_eff3
    
init -2:
    transform main_eff1:
        zoom 0.5
        easein 0.4 zoom 1.0
    transform main_eff2:
        zoom 0.5
        easein 0.8 zoom 1.0
    transform main_eff3:
        zoom 0.5
        easein 1.2 zoom 1.0
    transform main_eff4:
        zoom 0.5
        easein 1.2 zoom 1.0 rotate 360.0
    transform main_eff5:
        zoom 0.5
        easein 1.2  zoom 1.0 rotate 360.0

When clicked for the first time, it'll start the game. But if the player has already played a little (and so the game has been saved), when returning to the main menu and clicking on "start" will continue the game where it was left.

How can I do that?

Thanks in advance!

[Winterslice]

I'm using imagebuttons for the main menu of my game (yes, imagebuttons are as cool as the tutorial said ). I was wondering if I could add more than one action to an imagebutton?

You can, by enclosing your actions in a list, separating the actions with a comma. For example:

action [ SetVariable("variable", True), Jump("label") ]

[xela]

You can just separate them with a comma.

[Winterslice]

You can just separate them with a comma.

True. For my part, although they aren't strictly necessary, list brackets help me keep them organised and separate from hover/unhover actions, etc..

[Meg']

You can just separate them with a comma.

Like that? ==>

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    imagebutton auto "gui/main_start_%s.png" xpos 450 ypos 300 action Start(), ShowMenu("load") at main_eff1

But even if the code above was correct, it wouldn't work because I don't have a save/load screen (it will be a free to play, so no saving). I want to use the auto-saving function of ren'py. How can I call the auto-save made by ren'py using that code?

I'm using imagebuttons for the main menu of my game (yes, imagebuttons are as cool as the tutorial said ). I was wondering if I could add more than one action to an imagebutton?

You can, by enclosing your actions in a list, separating the actions with a comma. For example:

action [ SetVariable("variable", True), Jump("label") ]

Yup but if it jumps to a label, it won't work either. As I explained above, I don't have a screen for saving or loading.

[Winterslice]

Yup but if it jumps to a label, it won't work either. As I explained above, I don't have a screen for saving or loading.

That was just an example of how to structure multiple actions. Nothing to do with saving.

If you want to create your own autosave/checkpoint system, there's this:
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/save_load_rollback.html

You can use renpy.save and renpy.load at will, so that's one way to do it.

[Shakezula]

If you want to use screen language to force an autosave, you can do it like this:

action Function(renpy.force_autosave)


That would be a combination of screen language call function action:: Function(callable, *args, **kwargs)
And renpy's force autosave regardless of has autosave setting function:: renpy.force_autosave(take_screenshot=False).


Sidenote: Snce you're going to provide all saving manually, you should probably also cut out all renpy's manual autosaving with this code block:

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init python: #python early can also be used here
    config.has_autosave = False
    config.autosave_on_choice = False
    config.autosave_on_quit = False

Lastly, I also STRONGLY recommend as Winterslice did that you set your multiple screen actions to be a traditional list with [square, brackets, seperated, by, commas]. It will make your code that much more readable (as you add hover states and other screen properties to your imagebuttons) and quickly readable code is the python way.

[Meg']

Thank you for your advices, everyone!

I'm still trying to implement what you said.

If you want to use screen language to force an autosave, you can do it like this:

action Function(renpy.force_autosave)


That would be a combination of screen language call function action:: Function(callable, *args, **kwargs)
And renpy's force autosave regardless of has autosave setting function:: renpy.force_autosave(take_screenshot=False).


Sidenote: Snce you're going to provide all saving manually, you should probably also cut out all renpy's manual autosaving with this code block:

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init python: #python early can also be used here
    config.has_autosave = False
    config.autosave_on_choice = False
    config.autosave_on_quit = False

Lastly, I also STRONGLY recommend as Winterslice did that you set your multiple screen actions to be a traditional list with [square, brackets, seperated, by, commas]. It will make your code that much more readable (as you add hover states and other screen properties to your imagebuttons) and quickly readable code is the python way.

I don't intend to use a checkpoint system, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I saw when playing the game on my phone, that it could be quit and still continue from where it was left the last time I closed the app (that's what I was talking about when I mentioned ren'py auto-saving function).

I tried to do it like this:

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    imagebutton auto "gui/main_start_%s.png" xpos 450 ypos 300  action [ SetVariable("saved_game", True), Load("saved_game"), SetVariable("saved_game", False), Jump("start") ] at main_eff1

If there is a "saved_game", it will load the "saved_game". If there isn't, it will start normally. I don't know if it's correct.

[xela]

Do you want the last save loading code? Try searching something along those lines in this forum section, I remember that it was discussed before.