Ren'Py Single text with multiple styles

[liberatorus]

Here is a predefined style with outlines

    style choice_index is button_text:
        font "fonts/Aero.ttf"
        size 21
        color "#ffffff"
        hover_color "#ffffff"

        yoffset 1
        xoffset 50
        outlines [(1, "#4285f9", 0, 0)]
        hover_outlines [(1, "#005dff", 0, 0)]

It is used like this in screen choice

text "This is example text (I want the text in these paranthesis to not have outlines)" style "choice_index"

Basically applying style "choice_index" causes entire text to have outlines. But I want no outlines on the part that has the paranthesis. I tried using text style tags

text "This is example text  {=nooutlinestyle}(I want the text in these paranthesis to not have outlines){/}" style "choice_index"

But this doesn't work since style tags ignore outlines.

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How do I get some text on the choice screen where one part of the text does have outlines and another part doesn't?

 

[liberatorus]

It seems like this is basically impossible to do sicne the docs clarify

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That

Outlines only work when applied to an entire Text displayable. They do not work when applied to a hyperlink, text tag, or other method that applies to only a portion of the text.

But I did manage to find a workaround. You can set both the color and outliine color tag to the same color to at least simulate the absence of outlines like this

"{color=#104d01}{outlinecolor=#104d01}%s{/outlinecolor}{/color}"

 

[anne O'nymous]

How do I get some text on the choice screen where one part of the text does have outlines and another part doesn't?

By being inventive.

Something like this should do it ; perhaps after some corrections:

screen choice( items ):

    [...]
        for i in items:
            if "marker" in i.kwargs:
                $ txt = i.caption.split( i.kwargs["marker"] )
                button:
                    action i.action
                    hbox:
                        text txt[0] style "choice_index"
                        text txt[1] style "nooutlinestyle"
                        text txt[2] style "choice_index"
            else:
                textbutton i.caption style "choice_index" action i.action

label whatever:
    menu:
        "choice 1":
            [...]
        "choice **be careful** 2".( marker="**" ):
            [...]
        "choice ||no worry here|| 3".( marker="||" ):
            [...]

Alternatively you can also rely directly on the choice arguments:

screen choice( items ):

    [...]
        for i in items:
            if "clipped" in i.kwargs:
                button:
                    action i.action
                    hbox:
                        text i.kwargs["clipped"][0] style "choice_index"
                        text i.kwargs["clipped"][1] style "nooutlinestyle"
                        text i.kwargs["clipped"][2] style "choice_index"
            else:
                textbutton i.caption style "choice_index" action i.action

label whatever:
    menu:
        "choice 1":
            [...]
        "".( clipped=[ "choice", "be careful", "2" ] ):
            [...]
        "".( clipped=[ "choice", "no worry here", "3" ] ):
            [...]

This last approach can also permit to not limits to a three parts text:

screen choice( items ):

    [...]
        for i in items:
            if "clipped" in i.kwargs:
                button:
                    action i.action
                    hbox:
                        for txt, altStyle in i.kwargs["clipped"]:
                            text txt style ( "nooutlinestyle" if altStyle else "choice_index" )
            else:
                textbutton i.caption style "choice_index" action i.action

label whatever:
    menu:
        "choice 1":
            [...]
        "".( clipped=[ ( "choice", False ), ( "be careful", True ), ( "2", False ), ( "no, really, be careful", True ) ] ):
            [...]
        "".( clipped=[ ( "choice", False ), ( "no worry here", True ), ( "3", False ) ] ):
            [...]

 

[liberatorus]

Very creative, didn't think about hbox. Thanks a lot for the help