Re: The Inventory

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

James C. Wilson wrote:
> 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

Yes, "index" is a common term for the consecutive numbers that the 
"slots" of a list or array are addressed with. Lua by convention starts 
counting at 1, most other programming languages start at 0.

If you don't know where in the list the object is, then you just search 
for it. The shortest way of doing that I can find right now is

index = table.foreachi(state.inventory, function(i, v) if v == "TVCable" 
then return i end end)

although you can also spell it out as

for i = 1, table.getn(state.inventory) do
   if state.inventory[i] == "TVCable" then
     index = i
     break
   end
end

> wouldn't that be biased toward the order in which the player picks up
> items?

Yes, the inventory keeps objects in the order they were picked up. If 
you don't like that and would rather have them e.g. in a fixed order, 
you need to change the inventory code.

  -Christian