Don't hide background after [end_timeline]

[McStebb]

Hi there,

I'm guessing there's a simple way to do this and I just haven't found it yet.
In our VN project I sometimes pull up a menu overlay to enable navigation.

I want the dialog to stop playing while this happens, so I put the navigation menu between 2 timeline using [end_timeline], and then whichever button I click on the navigation menu will start the next timeline with Dialogic.start()

My problem is that [end_timeline] also hides the background. Is there a good way to stop timeline playback without removing the background, so whichever background was last displayed stays on-screen until a new one is called in to replace it?

Thank you

[Jowan-Spooner]

Hey,
by default the layout will only be kept while dialog is running and discarded afterwards. You can change this behaviour in the dialogic settings > general.

1. Set the layout node behaviour to "Keep Layout Node"
2. Then use a clear event with "clear background" disabled (in text: [clear background="false"]) before the [end timeline].

However while testing this I noticed [clear] won't hide the textbox (which it should, probably with a setting). I will make a bug report. For now the only proper way to hide the textbox is to use a wait event with a very short time and hide_textbox on.

[McStebb]

This works great for now! Thank you!