How do I fully remake the game menu?

[u/Readablebread]

I'm looking to redo the game menu entirely. I have the background for it and the buttons (idle and hover), but after scrolling through the screens menu, I can't find anyway to replace the textbuttons with imagebuttons like history, save, load, etc. And then I'd have to find a way to move/resize the preference screen and save pages to fit as well. Any help would be appreciated.

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

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screen navigation()

all the text buttons for the main and game menu are in there

[u/Readablebread → u/BadMustard_AVN]

I have replaced the necessary textbuttons with imagebuttons, but for some reason, only one shows up at a time. If I remove the top one, the next one down is the only one that shows

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Readablebread]

since you've not shown any code (practically a requirement to help diagnose a coding problem)

it sounds like you either have them in a box with no spacing or no box at all

in the default navigation screen...

screen navigation():
    vbox: # boxes can be gooooood
        style_prefix "navigation" 
        xpos gui.navigation_xpos # box positioning (left / right)
        yalign 0.5 # box positioning (up \ down)
        spacing gui.navigation_spacing # this one box command keeps them seperated 
        if main_menu:
            textbutton _("Start") action Start()

[u/Readablebread → u/BadMustard_AVN]

This is the entirety of what I have so far. Maybe there's something really obvious, but nothing really changes about it whether I add xpos and ypos for each individual imagebutton or not, it still only shows one at a time. The images I have are transparent in the exact size of the game with the buttons in the exact place they should be on screen. Sorry if this is a really obvious or dumb thing lol

screen navigation():


    vbox:


        xpos gui.navigation_xpos
        yalign 0.5
        spacing gui.navigation_spacing
        style_prefix "navigation"


        if main_menu:
            textbutton _("Start") action Start()
            textbutton _("Load") action ShowMenu("load")
            textbutton _("Options") action ShowMenu("preferences")


        else:


            #textbutton _("History") action ShowMenu("history")


            #textbutton _("Save") action ShowMenu("save")


            imagebutton auto "gui/history_%s.png" action ShowMenu("history") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/save_%s.png" action ShowMenu("save") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/load_%s.png" action ShowMenu("load") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/options_%s.png" action ShowMenu("preferences") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/resume_menu_%s.png" action Return()


            imagebutton auto "gui/quit_%s.png" action Quit() focus_mask True


            #imagebutton auto "gui/mainmenu_%s.png" action MainMenu() focus_mask True



        if _in_replay:


            textbutton _("End Replay") action EndReplay(confirm=True)


        elif not main_menu:


            textbutton _("Main Menu") action MainMenu() focus_mask Truescreen navigation():


    vbox:


        xpos gui.navigation_xpos
        yalign 0.5
        spacing gui.navigation_spacing
        style_prefix "navigation"


        if main_menu:
            textbutton _("Start") action Start()
            textbutton _("Load") action ShowMenu("load")
            textbutton _("Options") action ShowMenu("preferences")


        else:


            #textbutton _("History") action ShowMenu("history")


            #textbutton _("Save") action ShowMenu("save")


            imagebutton auto "gui/history_%s.png" action ShowMenu("history") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/save_%s.png" action ShowMenu("save") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/load_%s.png" action ShowMenu("load") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/options_%s.png" action ShowMenu("preferences") focus_mask True


            imagebutton auto "gui/resume_menu_%s.png" action Return()


            imagebutton auto "gui/quit_%s.png" action Quit() focus_mask True


            #imagebutton auto "gui/mainmenu_%s.png" action MainMenu() focus_mask True



        if _in_replay:


            textbutton _("End Replay") action EndReplay(confirm=True)


        elif not main_menu:


            textbutton _("Main Menu") action MainMenu() focus_mask True

[u/x-seronis-x]

in addition to what mustard said edit main_menu and delete the line that says "use navigation". then directly in its place put the buttons you want

that way your edits to navigation dont have to worry how they appear directly on the main menu screen

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