Ren'Py Single Choice Menu Workaround

[Atmus]

Tired of single choice menus? So am I.

So I wrote this simple script that works around them as long as you use the 'enter' key to advance the dialogue. What it does is overrides the choice screen and checks how many items in the menu there are. If there is only 1 item, it sets that item as the default focus. So pressing enter will choose the single choice and advance past the menu.

This might not work on all games. Specifically ones that already modify the choice screen.

Edit: Updated to work with renpy versions older than 7.3.1.

 

[jezzoo]

Interesting tool, do many games use "single choice" (no choice) menus? And what will your script do in standard multiple choice menus?

 

[Atmus]

I would say there are quite a few people who use single choice menus, much to the dismay of everyone else.

As for standard multiple choice menus, my code operates as default. No item will be selected.

 

[majdaddin]

I add this to the end of the choice screen:

    if preferences.afm_enable and len(items) == 1:
        timer 3.0 action items[0].action

so you see the single choice menu for 3 seconds, and then automatically 'click' the button

 

[Mattyd_OmOnekoVN]

Hi, hope it's alright if I jump in here.
I have a single choice menu option in my game and if you can use the code, feel free:

```
label choiceA13:
call imenu ("choiceA13")
if _return == m1:
call iscene ("A13a")
```
and

```

jump choiceA13
# choice option starts here:

label en_choiceA13:
menu:
"Beat Goro at his own Game":
return m1
with dissolve


label en_A13a:
```

 

[Mattyd_OmOnekoVN]

Oops, The above bb code didn't add the indents - added here so you can see,
Top code I have ion a library.rpy file, and the bottom is in the script.rpy

(Placement is wonky, but this is a WiP)

 

[anne O'nymous]

label choiceA13:
    call imenu ("choiceA13")
[...]
label en_choiceA13:
    menu:
        "Beat Goro at his own Game":
            return m1

Er... I get from your code that you should take a look at the part of Ren'py documentation regarding the

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. There's really no need to have a mechanism so complicated for your game support more than one language.

 

[TDoddery]

Single choice menu can be good though, in the sense that it hints to the player that there may be other choices not yet unlocked.

 

[jospaghettio]

Tired of single choice menus? So am I.

So I wrote this simple script that works around them as long as you use the 'enter' key to advance the dialogue. What it does is overrides the choice screen and checks how many items in the menu there are. If there is only 1 item, it sets that item as the default focus. So pressing enter will choose the single choice and advance past the menu.

This might not work on all games. Specifically ones that already modify the choice screen.

Edit: Updated to work with renpy versions older than 7.3.1.

Helpless question, is there a similar approach when there are two menu items where one is advance and one is end? Is there a way to set the advance option to default? Leaving the end option as cursor select.

Have a game where the advance option is 20 steps deep. It's tiring to move the cursor to advance 20 times. Thx.