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Squinage

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Stop inventory item from being selected
« on: September 21, 2012, 11:41:25 AM »

I have yet another inventory question (sorry). I have tried searching the forum, but it's quite hard to search for.

I basically just want to make an item in the inventory "unselectable". I have an item you can pick up and read (a note), but I don't want the player to be able to select it is an item to be used with other objects.

Any help on how to do this would be great.

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Re: Stop inventory item from being selected
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 03:05:58 PM »

open Game.Script

search for and add the underlined text into your script (replace itemname with your itemname):

on "LeftClick"
{
  // what did we click?
  var ActObj = Game.ActiveObject;
  if(ActObj!=null)
  //~ if(ActObj!=null && ActObj)
  {
    // clicking an inventory item
    if(ActObj.Type=="item" && Game.SelectedItem==null && ActObj.Name != "itemname")
    {
      Game.SelectedItem = ActObj;
    }

do the same for: on "LeftDoubleClick"

that will cancel left clicking on this item.
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Re: Stop inventory item from being selected
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 04:25:18 PM »

Thank you for the reply. That works great.

I wondered if there was another way of implementing this? The reason I ask is that if you had multiple object that you didn't want to be selected, this section of the code could get quite cumbersome. Is there a way of defining a list of items?

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Re: Stop inventory item from being selected
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 04:29:35 PM »

I'm sure there are many ways to do that. You can add any custom properties to your game objects. So for example, in your item's script you would do:

Code: WME Script
  1. this.Unclickable = true;
  2.  

And the condition above would now look like this:

Code: WME Script
  1. if(ActObj.Type=="item" && Game.SelectedItem==null && ActObj.Unclickable != true)
  2.  

So all items that set this property will become "unclickable".
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Re: Stop inventory item from being selected
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 05:30:13 PM »

Thanks to lof for providing an immediate workaround, but I think Mnemonic's solution is a bit smoother.

Either way, thanks for the help guys.

Squin
« Last Edit: September 21, 2012, 05:33:51 PM by Squinage »
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Re: Stop inventory item from being selected
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 06:44:57 PM »

you mentioned you needed it for one specific item :)
nevermind, you're welcome.
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