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Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:06 pm**

Like the title says, I'm trying to add Notifications to my game.

I have an Extras area on my Main Menu and I want to notify my players when they have unlocked bonus content. I also want the notification to show only once.

There are a lot of variables though. Mostly if they have to have seen certain pictures or played other extras.

The problem is if I do it this way on the Extras screen.

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    if persistent.credits_seen:
        $ renpy.notify("Inside the Character Studio has been unlocked")
        textbutton "Introduction" action Replay("ICSIntro", locked=False)
    else:
        text "The episode is not unlocked yet."

The notification loops continuously on the Main Menu when the conditions are met.

I have tried grouping them in one label and call that label at the end of the game or when I know an unlock could occur. With a persisent that turns true after the notification has triggered, like this.

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   if persistent.credits_seen or persistent.IntroUnlocked == False:
        $ renpy.notify("Inside the Character Studio has been unlocked")
        $ persistent.IntroUnlocked = True

Or this way.

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    if persistent.credits_seen and persistent.IntroUnlocked == False:
        $ renpy.notify("Inside the Character Studio has been unlocked")
        $ persistent.IntroUnlocked = True

But I then had to create another label that basically checks if the persistent data exist in the first place and if not creates it.

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label PersistentCheck:

    if not persistent.IntroUnlocked:
        $ persistent.IntroUnlocked = False

I put that one in my splashscreen label so it runs at the very start of the game.

Is there an easier way of do all this that doesn't rely on so much persistent data?

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:14 am**

You dont need to set a persistent variable to False, is not necessary. Any persistent variable that is referenced for the very first time always defaults to `None`.
And you can directly use that value as a condition.

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if not persistent.unlocked: # is very much the same as saying... persistent.unlocked == False
  pass
  # then don't show this, that, etc...`.

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:28 am**

Will "not" work next to an or/and?

Example:

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   if persistent.credits_seen or not persistent.IntroUnlocked:
        $ renpy.notify("Inside the Character Studio has been unlocked")
        $ persistent.IntroUnlocked = True
        
   if persistent.credits_seen and not persistent.IntroUnlocked:
        $ renpy.notify("Inside the Character Studio has been unlocked")
        $ persistent.IntroUnlocked = True

Sorry if I sound like a newbie.

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:51 am**

"And" and "or" combine any logical conditions. See a few interesting details in Python tutorial:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/data ... conditions

(When you see differences between Python 3 and Python 2.7, note that current Ren'Py version might still run on Python 2.7 but the transition to Python 3 is in progress, so it's recommended to use code compatible both with 2.7 and 3.)

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