Clickable hyperlink Ren'py

[i11uminati Productions]

In renpy how do you have an image on screen which can be clicked on to use a hyperlink?

 

[i11uminati Productions]

Believe me I tried google, the renpy manual and youtube. Everything was either a bit different than what I want (and I'm not capable enough to adjust it) or the code they show no longer works. I assume ren'py has changed over time.

 

[i11uminati Productions]

imagebutton:
idle "bleh.png"
action OpenURL("

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is hard.com")

This is what I'm working with but renpy doesn't like it.

 

[i11uminati Productions]

I tried that too. I get an error that says parsing the script failed. And end of line expected.
The one I quoted above was code I found on this site where someone else was asking a similar question.
That error goes away if I divide it into 3 separate lines similar to what I had above but then the
action OpenURL(

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) line gets a new error of "expected statement".

 

[anne O'nymous]

That error goes away if I divide it into 3 separate lines similar to what I had above but then the
action OpenURL(

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) line gets a new error of "expected statement".

Let me guess, the error you get looks exactly like this :

File "game/script.rpy", line XYZ: expected statement.
    imagebutton:
               ^

So, hmm...

Ren'py is a game engine that have three different languages. The first one is the "

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", that you use in init blocks, label blocks and for some inline code. The second one is the "

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", that you use in image blocks and show/scene blocks. And the third one is the "

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", that you use in screens blocks.


You got an error because you are using what is part of the "screen language", inside a label. You should have something like :

screen myScreen():

    imagebutton:
         idle "bleh.png"
         action OpenURL("https://coding is hard.com")

and not the :

label whatever:
    imagebutton:
         idle "bleh.png"
         action OpenURL("https://coding is hard.com")

that you wrote.

Perhaps that you should dedicate some times to the study of

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, to learn at least

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. It's just a question of few hours, but it will permit you to avoid this kind of errors.