Help defining keyboard input actions for imagebuttons

[HyDrone]

Hi,

Is it possible to link imagebuttons to one another such that the user can switch focus between them using only the arrow keys? Here's what I have:

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if main_menu:
        imagebutton idle gui.start_comic_idle hover gui.start_comic_hover xpos 150 ypos 800 keyboard_focus True action Start()
        imagebutton idle gui.load_idle hover gui.load_hover xpos 130 ypos 900 keyboard_focus True action ShowMenu("load")
        imagebutton idle gui.help_idle hover gui.help_hover xpos 550 ypos 800 keyboard_focus True action Help()
        imagebutton idle gui.exit_idle hover gui.exit_hover xpos 530 ypos 900 keyboard_focus True action Quit()

The arrangement is:
Start Help
Load Quit

I have some experience with appending and removing to the keymap, but I don't know how to define the key behavior specifically for when these buttons are focused. Where should I look?

[Alex]

Isn't it the default behaviour? Ren'Py designed to be operated not only by mouse but by keyboard and joystick.
Check focus_up and focus_down in a keymap - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/keymap.html#keymap

[HyDrone]

It turns out left/right wasn't working because of the changes I made for the game controls:

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    $config.keymap['rollback'].append('K_LEFT')
    $config.keymap['dismiss'].append('K_RIGHT')

I disabled those and now left/right is fine. Is there a way to use those keymap edits just for in-game and not the menu?

Now it's all default and the vertical controls still aren't working.

[Alex]

Well, you can try to left the keymap unchanged (the default one), create a screen with changes for key actions, and show this screen at the very begining of the game.

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screen keys_change():
    key "K_LEFT" action Rollback()
    key "K_RIGHT" action Return()

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_a ... l#Rollback