[solved] Empty textbox / narrator screen shows up while using renpy.pause()

[Errilhl]

Okay, I've noticed some unwarranted / uncalled textboxes (empty ones) showing up sometimes in my game, but I haven't really done that much about them. However, I was testing out nvl-mode for the narrator, which made the problem a lot more... problematic.

What happens is this: (all this in uncompiled dev mode, which might play into it)
I go through a dialogue, perhaps with a menu-item, and I click the button, and the jump happens (there are sometimes variables involved, sometimes not) - when it transforms between the dialogue / menu to the label (with more variables and dialogue, normally), the narrator window flashes briefly on the screen. I was wondering if anyone has seen this, and know of a fix?

Edit: I tested the compiled release-version now, and it happens there as well. So it's got nothing to do with it being the developer version, at least.

Another edit: I changed the title, because this seems to be correlating to pause-calls. So, if I call pause, the textbox flashes, or stays on the screen, depending on what else is happening, and how long the pause is. So... is there a way to hide the textbox automatically when calling renpy.pause()?

[Errilhl]

Anyone have any clue about this? Any way to hide the textbox when there is no content / it's empty?

[Imperf3kt]

Hide the window manually before your pause

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window hide
# your pause here
window auto

[Errilhl]

That is... actually sort of a hassle... don't see why this isn't a one-time setting in a config somewhere (hide_if_empty = True). But thanks, I will have to go through and fix all my pause-statements now

[Errilhl]

Ended up making a transparent textbox, and adding the following to the screen say:

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        if who is not None and what:
            background Image("gui/textbox_cutout.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
        elif not what:
            background Image("gui/textbox_transparent.png", xalign=0.5,yalign=1.0)
        else:
            background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

[Errilhl]

And, after I did that, I got a comment somewhere else that led me to this:

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define _preferences.show_empty_window = False

Which seems to be doing the job - marking as solved