Adding a main menu music option to options screen

[joehair]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out (to no avail) how can I add an option to the options menu, specifically an option to choose which track a player would like to use for the main menu theme. I do not know how to add an option in general so I'm kinda puzzled right now.

Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,
Joe

[Per K Grok]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out (to no avail) how can I add an option to the options menu, specifically an option to choose which track a player would like to use for the main menu theme. I do not know how to add an option in general so I'm kinda puzzled right now.

Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,
Joe

I take it that you are talking about preferences.

So you go to the screen.rpy file

Find
'screen preferences():'

go down to
## Additional vboxes of type "radio_pref" or "check_pref" can be
## added here, to add additional creator-defined preferences.

and you can add something like this

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                vbox:
                    style_prefix "radio"
                    label _("Main Menu Music")
                    textbutton _("Track 1") action NullAction()
                    textbutton _("Track 2") action NullAction()
                    textbutton _("Track 3") action NullAction()
                    textbutton _("Track 4") action NullAction()    
                         

This code will give you the buttons, but with *NullAction()' they don't do anything.

Changing the main menu music will have some complications depending on what you want to do.
Typically the player don't spend much time at the main menu, so this might not be a good thing to put too much work into.

[Imperf3kt]

I just do it this way:

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default m_music = None

screen main_menu():
    tag menu
    on "show" action Play("music", m_music)

Then you just set the value of the variable "m_music" in the usual ways (as an action or by setting it with python) to the name of the audio you want to use.
You may need to use a persistent variable if you want to set/change the music permanently (until it is changed again, at least)

[joehair]

thanks guys! I'll report results after testing.