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[Isaac]

Is there any way to deactivate the throwing of mouse item ? I made a small window where I would like to drag and drop items, but when I click on it the mouse item is thrown.

How did you make the window?

Here is a simple option that restricts throwing, but not dropping; and calls a function when clicked.

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useTrigger = true     --auto-spawns a connected floor_trigger on the tile
windowActive = false  

function click_action(bool)
		if bool then
	--_________________________  Change script to suit
		
			local item = getMouseItem()
			if item then
				hudPrint("You clicked the window with a "..item.go.name..".")
			end
	--_________________________
		end	
end

_createWindow = function(context)
				if not context.mouseDown(2) and party.facing == self.go.facing 
				and party.x == self.go.x and party.y == self.go.y
				and party.elevation == self.go.elevation  --can be commented out
				then
						local dir, result = context.button(self.go.id.."window", 0, 0, context.width, context.height * .6)
						if result then
						 click_action(context.mouseDown(3))
						end
				end
			end	

function _setWindowActive(bool)
	windowActive = bool
	print(bool)
end

function activate()
	windowActive = true
end

function deactivate()
	windowActive = false
end

function toggleWindowActive()
	windowActive = not windowActive
end

if useTrigger then
	self.go:spawn('floor_trigger').floortrigger:addConnector('onToggle', self.go.id, "toggleWindowActive")
end

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defineObject{
	name = "party",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Party",
			onMove = function(self, dir)  end,
			onDrawGui = function(self, context) window2.script.createWindow(context) end,
		},
		{
			class = "Light",
			name = "torch",
			range = 12,
		},
	},
	editorIcon = 32,
	placement = "floor",
}

To use this, define onDrawGui (in a party definition, in objects.lua) to call the _createWindow function in the script_entity.
Then position and face the script _entity to indicate the tile and direction where the window is. Activate the effect
either via script using one of the setter functions, or via the built in trigger/plate (which is automatically spawned by default).

[AndakRainor]

I use the onDrawInventory of the party to draw this panel. It is a panel I use to craft potions, similar to the mortar menu of grimrock 1, next to the inventory instead of over the hands of the champion.

I don't use context.button in my code but context.drawGuiItem2 and context.drawImage2. Is it this function that restricts throwing in your example ?

[Isaac]

The script makes an invisible button that covers the upper half of the screen, and intercepts clicks that are on the button. The button covers the area where the engine detects left clicks to initiate throwing a weapon.

Also... I've found a far simpler (and better) way to do this.

Just define this object and place it.

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defineObject{
	name = "click_region",
	baseObject = "base_wall_decoration",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Clickable",
			offset = vec(0, 2.2, -1),
			size = vec(3, 3, .5),
			--debugDraw = true,
			onClick = function(self)
						local click_actions = findEntity("click_actions")
						local item = getMouseItem()
						if click_actions and click_actions.script[self.go.id] then
							click_actions.script[self.go.id]()
						elseif item then  
							hudPrint("You clicked the window with a "..item.go.name..".")
						end
					end
		},
	}
}

Change the onClick event to suit; or you can add a script_entity with the id 'click_actions', and with a function in it of the same name as your click_region object's id.

Example: place a "click_region_2" object, and add a script_entity named "click_actions"...

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--script name is click_actions
click_region_2 = function()
					playSound("secret")
					local item = getMouseItem()
					if item then							
						hudPrint("You clicked the window with a "..item.go.name..".")
					end
				end

You can place as many click_region objects as you like, and when clicked, they will each check the click_actions script for their own function to execute.

[AndakRainor]

Is there a way to get the gfxIndexArmorSet value of an item ? I don't see the function for it in the scripting reference.

[TZO2k12]

I've been hunting forever for a simple keyboard command ,list, specifically how do you duplicate an asset?

[THOM]

You mean the editor? Did you had a look at file/preferences? You can change the key-commands.

To duplicate an object just use ctrl-c and ctrl-v... The new object will lie over the old one, but it is selected and you can move it by using the arrow-keys...

[FeMaiden]

ignore me...i just had to comment on the irony. this thread is titled "....simple question...simple answer" and half of these scripts I see are like a whole nother league above my pay grade. I haven't even begun to understand the complexity...
I haven't gotten past bossfights hudPrints and the intro to "if then else".

but the double irony is that these probably really ARE simple, to the people that wrote them.

[minmay]

Well, what would you prefer? People answering the questions, or people saying "no, that question isn't simple enough for this thread, go away"?

[Azel]

ignore me...i just had to comment on the irony. this thread is titled "....simple question...simple answer" and half of these scripts I see are like a whole nother league above my pay grade. I haven't even begun to understand the complexity...
I haven't gotten past bossfights hudPrints and the intro to "if then else".

but the double irony is that these probably really ARE simple, to the people that wrote them.

I suppose then that we could say that "simple" is all a matter of perspective.

On one extreme, you have people who don't know much of anything about programming nor the Asset Pack and prefer to ask before trial n error; on the other end you have people (eg, minmay) who insist that you must memorize everything about LUA and Grimrock assets before you're allowed to speak; and somewhere in the middle are those of us who fumble through the pain of learning just enough to make something that someone hopefully finds worthwhile to play for longer than an hour.

Perhaps a better name for this thread is, "simply ask a question, and get either an answer from the community or a sarcastic response from minmay."

That's the dominant theme of the near 1,000 posts in this thread. All-in-all though, it's a fun read and a worthy cause (I think)

[Dr.Disaster]

ignore me...i just had to comment on the irony. this thread is titled "....simple question...simple answer" and half of these scripts I see are like a whole nother league above my pay grade. I haven't even begun to understand the complexity...
I haven't gotten past bossfights hudPrints and the intro to "if then else".

but the double irony is that these probably really ARE simple, to the people that wrote them.

Yeah the title might irritate somebody new to modding. Think of it as "if then else" thread: straight question going for a straight answer(s) without fooling around.