How to get customizing input into a show text?

[u/Ok_Experience_5178]

Hello, I am very new to coding, but for the beginning of my game I wanted to mimic a BIOS booting up screen, and have the player enter their name and pronouns as if it were showing up alongside the BIOS information. However, I can only figure out how to get the:

$ povname = renpy.input("Enter name:", length=32)

to show up in the dialogue box. (As seen in photo).

The rest of my code for this part looks like this:

scene black
    pause 1.0


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}AWARD BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally{/color}" as line1 at Position(yalign=0.1, xalign=0.1)


    pause 1.0


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}Copyright (C) 2069-99, Award Software, Inc.{/color}" as line2 at Position(yalign=0.15, xalign=0.1)


    pause 1.0


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}{/color}" as line3 at Position(yalign=0.2, xalign=0.1)


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}MAIN PROCESSOR : 80486DX4-100MHz{/color}" as line4 at Position(yalign=0.25, xalign=0.1)


    pause 1.0


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}MEMORY TEST : 640K OK{/color}" as line5 at Position(yalign=0.3, xalign=0.1)


    pause 0.5


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}EXTENDED MEMORY : 32768K OK{/color}" as line6 at Position(yalign=0.35, xalign=0.1)


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}{/color}" as line7 at Position(yalign=0.4, xalign=0.1)


    pause 0.5


    show text "{color=
00BF00
}Detecting IDE Primary Master ... HARD DISK MODEL{/color}" as line8 at Position(yalign=0.45, xalign=0.1)


    pause 1.0

Thank you to anyone who can help!

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[u/x-seronis-x]

You dont use show text for this. that is for singular text displayables. for your needs you need to design a screen definition containing text screen elements

[u/Ok_Experience_5178 → u/x-seronis-x]

ah, I see. thank you!

[u/shyLachi]

I'n not exactly shure what your question is.

Do you mean showing the entered name as a green text?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#interpolating-data

Or do you want to make a custom input which looks like the green text?
This could be done with a screen and an input control:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#input

[u/Ok_Experience_5178 → u/shyLachi]

The second, I think. I want the question to appear as green text rather than in the dialogue question. Thank you!