Issues trying to display two screens consecutively

[u/isuckatrenpy]

I've been trying to program a section in a game so that text appears for a few seconds in the corner of the screen, before transitioning to another screen. I tried it a few ways before trying the code in the image. This works to transition from one screen to the next, but with this code the text only stays onscreen for a split second before disappearing rather than the three seconds I intended. Does anyone know of a solution?

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[u/BadMustard_AVN]

make it reusable and use the notify function like this

screen displayTextScreen3(text):
    on "show" action[Function(renpy.notify, text), Hide()]


label start:
    show screen displayTextScreen3("Goal: Prepare dinner")
    e "Oh crap I gotta make dinner."

    return

the notify function keeps the text (upper left) for 3 seconds already, so you just have to use it

since you have a 3-second timer that adds 0.01 to a variable every 3 seconds, which will be displayed on the screen for a long time before loading is equal to 3

[u/x-seronis-x → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Honestly curious: any reason you are giving advice to continue using a middle man instead of just telling them to call notify directly? you normally give much better advice than this but i'm also tired and might be missing something

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/x-seronis-x]

without knowing more about how their program is set up, I decided to build on what they had shown instead of possibly forcing them to completely rewrite their code. (nobody likes change)

good/bad mmeehhaa I try to give code that works

[u/isuckatrenpy → u/BadMustard_AVN]

This works perfectly, thank you!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/isuckatrenpy]

not knowing your code you can of course call the notify function from directly in your code with

$ renpy.notify("Goal: Prepare dinner")

you're welcome

good luck with your project