Show default name on screen

[LittleAngel22]

Hi! I'm practicing how to make a screen for the player to choose their own name and it's been working well, but I'd like to improve this a little bit more.

I would like the player to be able to see the character's default name on screen and, if desired, to be able to erase it and write their own. But I don't know how to do it. Anyone could help me?

Now my name screen looks like this:



But I want it looks like this:



The code that I used to make my screen: https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments ... urce=share

[Ocelot]

Input screen element takes default property, which controls default text present in the input: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#input

[LittleAngel22]

Input screen element takes default property, which controls default text present in the input: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#input

Okay, but can you tell me how to use this? Because I read this page several times, but I don't know how to get what I want. I know zero about coding and only very little about Renpy.

[LittleAngel22]

Input screen element takes default property, which controls default text present in the input: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#input

This is my code:

[Ocelot]

First of all: if you are using InputValue, you cannot use default property, so you can delete it.

But it actually make it easier: you just need to set variable player_name to "Jamie". Find, where something like default player_name = "" or something similar. Just repalce the " " part with "Jamie"

[LittleAngel22]

First of all: if you are using InputValue, you cannot use default property, so you can delete it.

But it actually make it easier: you just need to set variable player_name to "Jamie". Find, where something like default player_name = "" or something similar. Just repalce the " " part with "Jamie"

Worked like magic!! Thank you very much! If you don't mind, can I ask you something else? I would like to know how to make the text centered. I know how to position it on the screen, but when the player types, even though the cursor is in the center, the text goes to the right.

[Ocelot]

add xanchor 0.5 to the input. You will have to change value of xpos since you are changing anchor, but it is trivial.
I assume that there is nothing else messing with input styles. If there is, it will be slightly harder.

[LittleAngel22]

add xanchor 0.5 to the input. You will have to change value of xpos since you are changing anchor, but it is trivial.
I assume that there is nothing else messing with input styles. If there is, it will be slightly harder.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have worked. The cursor keeps going to the right instead of staying in the center when I delete the default name.

[Ocelot]

You can try to set text_align to 0.5. Otherwise, you will need to check what style preferences are affecting your input and change them accordingly.