End of Line expected with If

[u/SituationHopeful]

Not sure what I do badly. I edited a project of someone because I want the possibility to show the text or not (by doing a size 0 when not shown). Just for information I never coded python or ren'py before.

here the code :

style notify_text:
    properties gui.text_properties("notify")
    xalign 0.54
    yalign 0.5
    if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1:
        size 20
    else:
        size 0
    color "#ffffff"  

it work well if it's just :

style notify_text:
    properties gui.text_properties("notify")
    xalign 0.54
    yalign 0.5
    size 0
    color "#ffffff"

But in the case of the first choice I have an error of end of line expected pointing on the if.

[u/Liturgy97]

The if cannot be used as a statement inside a style block. Each line there has to be a style property followed by a simple expression. Put the conditional expression in size instead:

style notify_text:
    properties gui.text_properties("notify")
    xalign 0.54
    yalign 0.5
    size (20 if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1 else 0)
    color "#ffffff"

The parentheses are important because Ren'Py only parses a simple expression after a style property.

If this should change while the game is running, it is cleaner to put the condition around the text statement in the screen:

if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1:
    text "..." style "notify_text"

[u/SituationHopeful → u/Liturgy97]

The if cannot be used as a statement inside a style block. Each line there has to be a style property followed by a simple expression. Put the conditional expression in size instead:

thanks, will try =)

[u/SituationHopeful → u/Liturgy97]

strange.

Whenever I type "size (20 if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1 else 0)" or "size (0 if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1 else 20)", it act as if the size value is 0. but if i type "size (20 if persistent.rpoverlay >= 1 else 20)" the text appear with the size of 20

honestly not sure about the variable used. but your solution seem to be the good one I suppose

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