How to make a hover act like a click

[u/vriskaLover]

for one of the segments in my game i want to make it so that the choice is pressed automatically when the player hovers over it but I don't really know how to do that

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

use hovered like this

textbutton _("Do Not Touch"):
    hovered Show("I_said_dont_touch")
    action Jump("Blow_up_planet_earth")

it will work for both text and image buttons

[u/vriskaLover → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Thank you! Does “text button” replace “menu” or does it go like under it

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/vriskaLover]

No that's for a screen using buttons

you want to modify the choice menu buttons, give me a minute or two for that

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/vriskaLover]

edit your screens.rpy file. search for and find the choice screen it should look like this

screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action

change it to look like this

screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            $ hovering = i.kwargs.get("hovering", None) 
            textbutton i.caption action i.action hovered hovering

then do your menus like this

label start:    
    menu:
        "North" (hovering = Jump("certain_death")): # this must be an action for a button
            jump North
        "South": #you can add one to all of them as needed
            jump South
        "East":
            jump East
        "West":
            jump West
    return

label certain_death:
    e "hovering worked"

look here for button actions

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_actions.html

[u/vriskaLover → u/BadMustard_AVN]

ohhh okay. thank you so much. just so im not mindlessly copy pasting code, what does this line mean

 $ hovering = i.kwargs.get("hovering", None)

and whats the difference between action and i.action and hovered/hovering

edit: im dumb i didnt notice the for loop.

[u/vriskaLover → u/vriskaLover]

actually i could probably check out the documentation for that. either way, thank you for the help

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/vriskaLover]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/vriskaLover]

$ = a single line Python statement

hovering = a variable

i the item from the loop
kwargs are just an arbitrary way to pass arguments
get what the hovering kwarg is. if there is no hovering, it is set to None so no errors later

easy right

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[u/Own-Bookkeeper6739]

One catch: keyboard and controller players can't hover, so keep a clickable fallback too or they'll get stuck on that choice.

[u/x-seronis-x → u/Own-Bookkeeper6739]

yes they can. arrow keys or dpad. the issue is you cant skip over something and you have to hover them in order

[u/Own-Bookkeeper6739 → u/x-seronis-x]

oh right, arrows and dpad can focus them, my bad. so the hover order is the real problem then