He want to have a different quick menu, not just a translated one. That wouldn't be an issue
Ah. I was probably reading too quickly and being thrown off by the Spanish version being almost the same as the English one, except... you know... Spanish.
Your basic problem is that your patch.rpy file (no matter which folder it is in) is completely replacing the standard
screen quick_menu() due to the
init 999:.
init: code is just initialization code. It runs before the main game starts.
So that there can be more than one
init: block and the programmer can control what order those blocks are run in... there's the number afterward.
init 0: is the default. Anything with a minus number is run BEFORE
init 0:, anything higher than 0 is run AFTER
init 0:. How big or small the numbers control when each are run compared with the other
init: blocks.
So in your case, 999 is trying really hard to be the last thing run before the game starts for real. Anything that happens there, overwrites anything that happened earlier.
So the
screen quick_menu(): in the
screens.rpy will create a screen called "quick_menu" during
init 0:.
Then your patch comes along and creates a replacement
screen quick_menu(): during
init 999: - effectively overwriting the original definition.
... So you get your Spanish language version regardless of the language selected.
I guess it really comes down to what you mean what you say...
I want the quick menu of the Spanish version to be different from the English one [...]
Because if you just want Spanish words instead of English ones... then
my post back here explains that. Which is basically "use the normal translation process" like you would any other text.
Except other people point out you're an experienced translator and you're not actually doing something that simple.
Bahh. I'm SO late in noticing this... but you've actually added extra buttons onto the quick_menu in your version.
So... Move your patch.rpy back into the main
/game/ folder, then rewrite it to look something like this:
Python:
init 1:
screen quick_menu():
## Ensure this appears on top of other screens.
zorder 100
if quick_menu:
if preferences.language != "spanish":
hbox:
style_prefix "quick"
xalign 0.5
yalign 1.0
textbutton _("Back") action Rollback()
textbutton _("History") action ShowMenu('history')
textbutton _("Skip") action Skip() alternate Skip(fast=True, confirm=True)
textbutton _("Auto") action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")
textbutton _("Save") action ShowMenu('save')
textbutton _("Q.Save") action QuickSave()
textbutton _("Q.Load") action QuickLoad()
textbutton _("Prefs") action ShowMenu('preferences')
else:
hbox:
style_prefix "quick"
xalign 0.5
yalign 1.0
textbutton _("Back") action Rollback()
textbutton _("History") action ShowMenu('history')
textbutton _("Auto") action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")
textbutton _("Skip") action Skip()
textbutton _("Q.Skip") action Skip(fast=True, confirm=True)
textbutton _("Q.Load") action QuickLoad()
textbutton _("Q.Save") action QuickSave()
textbutton _("Load") action ShowMenu('load')
textbutton _("Save") action ShowMenu('save')
textbutton _("Prefs") action ShowMenu('preferences')
textbutton _("Hide UI") action HideInterface()
textbutton _("Quit") action Quit(confirm=not main_menu)
The basics of what I've done here is that I've said "If the language is NOT Spanish, use a copy of the standard quick_menu. Otherwise (if it IS Spanish) use the your expanded quick_menu". Both menus are in English (because the base game is English). I'm then suggesting that you then use the standard translation processes to convert all the text here (including the text in the expanded quick_menu) to Spanish.
I've used
init 1: rather than
init 999: because honestly, as long as it's above 0 (zero) - it'll still overwrite the original screen definition.
You'll still need to do the normal translation process via the RenPy launcher, but when you do - you should find a /game/tl/spanish/patch.rpy file which only contains
translate lines.
Then just put the translation lines in for things like "Q.Skip" -> "Salto directo", etc. into the /tl/ files and things should work how you planned.
*I think*.
I've done a brief test using this code and changing the language with the game already running... and it works exactly how you would expect, with the new layout being used when the right language is selected.
You might want to consider removing the whole section I'm thinking of as the "English Quick Menu" (that is the section after
if preferences.language != "spanish": and ONLY using your extended quick menu options for both the english and spanish versions. It won't require altering the baseline code and I'm sure English speakers using your patch won't object to a few extra quick menu options to choose from.
