[SOLVED] Bizarre behavior with splashscreen

[AVNSnax]

I'm having a bizarre new issue having to do with a splash screen. Code that worked before, now doesn't. During development and running the app using the launcher, my splashscreen code is no longer being called. Yes, I know about the new Preferences→Options→Skip splashscreen button. And yes, it's unchecked. If I build the app and run it directly, it works fine.

Thinking it may have been introduced by my move to 8.2.0, I switched back to 8.1.3, but the behavior is the same.

Once I get to the main menu, I can manually launch the splash screen from the console:

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renpy.call_in_new_context('splashscreen')

and it works fine. So I know that the label exists and is being seen. I just can't figure out why it never gets called when launched from the launcher.

The splash screen isn't rocket science: it just plays some music, loads a legal acknowledgement screen, shows a brief logo video, then exits to the main menu. It's worked fine for two years.

Has anyone else seen anything similar? Do I need to declare splashscreen in some special context? Right now, it's in the same *.rpy file as start. The only way I can test the startup code at the moment is to go through the lengthy process of building a distribution bundle and then running it after unzipping it to another folder. Not ideal, obviously.

[m_from_space]

I'm having a bizarre new issue having to do with a splash screen. Code that worked before, now doesn't. During development and running the app using the launcher, my splashscreen code is no longer being called. Yes, I know about the new Preferences→Options→Skip splashscreen button. And yes, it's unchecked. If I build the app and run it directly, it works fine.

I tested the behavior in my Renpy 8.2.1 (Nightly Fix) and the splashscreen works fine. If I check "Skip splashscreen" in the launcher options, it is skipped. If I uncheck, it is shown again when launching.

You don't have to do anything special regarding the splashscreen. Just put a label with that name in your script.rpy or anywhere else. What does your splashscreen look like?

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label splashscreen:
    "Hey, I am the splashsreen."
    return

label start:
    ...

[AVNSnax]

I tested the behavior in my Renpy 8.2.1 (Nightly Fix) and the splashscreen works fine. If I check "Skip splashscreen" in the launcher options, it is skipped. If I uncheck, it is shown again when launching.

You don't have to do anything special regarding the splashscreen. Just put a label with that name in your script.rpy or anywhere else. What does your splashscreen look like?

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label splashscreen:
    "Hey, I am the splashsreen."
    return

label start:
    ...

I've had splashscreens in games for the past two years. I said that I noticed that it suddenly stopped working when I upgraded to 8.2.0, not that it was 8.2.0's fault. I also said that I went back to 8.1.3 to double-check, and that the issue was still there.

I know it works. It's been working for me. One of the first things I did was modify The Question to add a splashscreen and try to localize the problem. Of course, it worked, so the problem is localized to my code, somewhere. But where?

The label is there. In the console,

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renpy.seen_label('splashscreen')

returns True.

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renpy.call_in_new_context('splashscreen')

executes the code there with no issue. It just doesn't seem to be called at launch time, and that is the bizarre behavior I was referring to. Lint'ing doesn't report any issues. I moved the code out of utilities.rpy where it was originally into a separate file. No change. I tested changing the init offset. I renamed the file splashscreen was in to 0100000000startup.rpy to get the code to be seen earlier. I double-checked that splashscreen wasn't used as a variable name anywhere else in the code. (I mean, why would that be, but I was desperately grasping at straws...)

I was asking if anyone else had ever seen anything similar, to try and narrow down the possible cause because at the moment, I'm stumped.

[AVNSnax]

That boom that you just heard was the sound of my forehead crashing to my desk.

My project includes 0x52_URM to test the game when built for distribution because by that point the console is turned off. I have a build rule to omit it from build packages destined for release.

The latest version of 0x52_URM has an option to bypass the startup screen.

Sigh. Problem solved.

[m_from_space]

I've had splashscreens in games for the past two years. I said that I noticed that it suddenly stopped working when I upgraded to 8.2.0, not that it was 8.2.0's fault. I also said that I went back to 8.1.3 to double-check, and that the issue was still there.

Hey, I'm glad you found the issue. I just was stating that in the last Renpy version I was using it works fine - it could have been an issue with a version before that. As I said, I am on Renpy 8.2.1. You never know, I am not the one familiar with your code, so I have to ask simple questions first.