renpy accessibility keeps popping up

[dstarfire]

Since a month or two ago, most renpy games bring up an accessibility menu any time I hit the 'a' key, even when typing into a text box (e.g. name your character prompt, or for naming a save file). Is there some way I can turn this stupid feature off, or is there some way to stop it from popping up all the time?

 

[scrumbles]

Open renpy\common\00keymap.rpy and add a hash symbol (#) at the beginning of:

        accessibility = [ "K_a" ],

Alternatively you may open the game console and type:

config.keymap['accessibility'].remove('K_a')
clear_keymap_cache()

or you may create a patch and include it in every game. Create a new text file, copy this content:

init python:
    config.keymap['accessibility'].remove('K_a')
    renpy.clear_keymap_cache()

save the file as no_accessibility.rpy and move it into the folder named "game".

 

[dstarfire]

Thank you for your help. That stupid "feature" been driving me nuts. Editing the keymap.rpy file worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, creating a no_accessibility.rpy file just produced an error on launch, so I'll just have to do this manually for each game. I double-checked the spacing (which is critical options.rpy) and each line starts with 4 empty spaces. Here's the error I got, if you want to puzzle out what went wrong:

While running game code:
  File "game/no_accessibility.rpy", line 1, in script
    init python:
  File "game/no_accessibility.rpy", line 2, in <module>
    config.keymap['accessibility'].remove('K_a')
KeyError: u'accessibility'

Again, that's only if you're curious about what went wrong. I'm content with editing the keymap.rpy file for each game.

 

[scrumbles]

If I'm not mistaken, the script make the game crash because in 00keymap.rpy the line:

        accessibility = [ "K_a" ],

has been already commented (with the '#') or removed and "config.array" has no "accessibility" key (anymore).
Partly it is my fault, I should have put the statement in a try...except block.

This is a safer version of the script:

init python:
    if "accessibility" in config.keymap.keys():
        if "K_a" in config.keymap["accessibility"]:
            config.keymap['accessibility'].remove('K_a')
    renpy.clear_keymap_cache()

 

[dstarfire]

If I'm not mistaken, the script make the game crash because in 00keymap.rpy the line:

        accessibility = [ "K_a" ],

has been already commented (with the '#') or removed and "config.array" has no "accessibility" key (anymore).
Partly it is my fault, I should have put the statement in a try...except block.

Yeah, that was the problem, alright. I tried modifying the 00keymap.rpy file in one game, and it worked. So I then tried creating the no_accessibility file in that same game and copied it around. The reason it crashed my other games is that a lot of them don't have the accessibility line in 00keymap.rpy.

Lesson learned: If I'm going to tinker with something I don't fully understand, be methodical about it, and keep track of what you've done. Also, Python uses indents to mark code blocks (if-then, for/while, init, etc.). I didn't see anything in your example to mark the beginning and end of the if statements, (every other language I've seen uses parentheses, brackets, or some other form of punctuation), so I looked up python if statements and for loops.

Thanks again. Not only can I turn off an annoying feature, I can actually understand .rpy files a lot easier now.