Re: The Inventory

[James C. W. <jfc...@ya...>]

Okay, thanks..It looks like taking away the unnesseary arguement
solves it. However, for the future, I'm not aware of what the list index of the
object is, or how to find it. If it's the number that the inventory table
assigns the object, wouldn't that be biased toward the order in which the
player picks up items?


________________________________
 From: Christian Walther <cwa...@gm...>
To: pip...@li... 
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: The Inventory
 
James C. Wilson wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble applying the
> inventory operations in the demo to my project: Is this the proper way
> to test if an inventory object is carried, then drop it?
> Pipmak doesn't see equality.
>
> hotspot {
> cursor = cur_inventory, enabled = not state.observCablePlaced,
> onmousedown = function()
> if state.inventory[state.inventory.carried] == "TVCable" then
> inventory:message("drop", "TVCable")
> pipmak.gethotspot(3):enable(false)
> state.observCablePlaced = true
> pipmak.getpatch(1):setvisible(true)
> end
> end
> }

One mistake I can see is that the "drop" message of the inventory takes 
an index, not an object name. You can also leave out the argument 
entirely, it will then automatically assume state.inventory.carried. See 
nodes 9 (use of the key from the inventory in a similar way to what 
you're trying to do) and 50 (inventory) in the demo project.

If as you say you don't even get that far because 
state.inventory[state.inventory.carried] == "TVCable" is never true, 
then I would suggest inserting
pipmak.print(state.inventory[state.inventory.carried])
or examining state.inventory using the table inspector from the Lua 
command line to find out what it is.

  -Christian


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