Thank you so much! The revision did the trick. You are wonderful!Oops, didn't saw your previous message, sorry.
It's not because of its place, but because of its default value. Change the test from this :
showif tooltip != "":
to that :
showif tooltip:
Probably me who mixed the old and new way to use them, sorry.
I did play around with pieces of the code to get a handle on what the various parts do. I prefer to understand the code as much as I can although it takes me awhile to get the hang of it. The icons for the stats look much better than the text stats I was using. And I've improved my renpy skills a bit in the process. Thanks again for your help.