Is it possible to use the "hide_windows" action in the game menu.

[Lochana]

I've been working on a project in Ren'py for a some time now, and it's been smooth sailing so far thanks to the documentation, the past questions in this forum and the cookbook. However I ran into a small problem.

I've created a right-click menu in place of the game-menu. It goes on like this.

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screen game_menu:
    tag menu
    
    window:
        style "gm_root"  
        
    vbox:
        pos (0.38, 0.2)
       
        textbutton _("Continue") action Return() text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Save Game") action ShowMenu("save") text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Load Game") action ShowMenu("load") text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Hide Window") action hide_windows() text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Preferences") action ShowMenu("preferences") text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Main Menu") action MainMenu() text_size 50 xalign 0.5
        textbutton _("Quit") action Quit() text_size 50 xalign 0.5
       

The problem I have comes up when I'm trying to implement a "show cg" function from the right click menu. The "hide_windows()" action doesn't work from the r-click menu. Is there anyway else I could implement a function similar to it.

[IrinaLazareva]

What is 'hide_windows' ?
If it is python's function, then try:

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        textbutton _("Hide Window") action Function(hide_windows)

doc: https://renpy.org/doc/html/screen_actions.html#Function

[Lochana]

I tried it, but It doesn't work. As for the hide_windows action, I got it from here "viewtopic.php?p=96213". The action HideInterface() is available but it only seems to work on the quick-menu. I guess I'll change the ui. Thanks for taking your time to help.

[Remix]

How are you currently trying to implement it? (I presume you are emulating the 'h' keypress event)

It seems that hide_windows is not an actual function, just a keymap call that passes the event through to then call a label (generally in a new context or even curried).
For info, the label that does the work is:

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label _hide_windows:

    if renpy.context()._menu:
        return

    if _windows_hidden:
        return

    python:
        _windows_hidden = True
        voice_sustain()
        ui.saybehavior(dismiss=['dismiss', 'hide_windows'])
        ui.interact(suppress_overlay=True, suppress_window=True)
        _windows_hidden = False

    return

You might be able to use it as an action by something like:

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action Function( renpy.curried_call_in_new_context, "_hide_windows" )

[Lochana]

Thanks, I'll try it and see if it works.