Yup, well that's pretty much what I'm doing. But the fact that nowhere in my accessible code was the part where an item from world is added to my inventory messes up my plan.
And this is what I keep asking and I can't get a straight answer to.
Where's the code that adds world items to my inventory? How can I change it?

Wouldn't that just be Items.add( item ); ?

I suppose it would, if only there was one.
I've studied the inventory tutorial for hours and there was no place where the item was added in that memx container. I suppose some super update function does that, but i have no idea which. Thus, I have no idea how to alter it and make it do what i want of it.

The tutorial uses this line:
itemPickUp(*item); // pick it up

It's not exposed(it's in Game.Obj, which isn't included with the game objects source, unfortunately), so we don't know what is going on inside the function.

:-< /sigh
That's what I figured out.... so there's no way for me to change what happens between that and the point where the item is in my memx container? It kinda sucks....

(04-24-2013 07:18 AM)andreim44 Wrote:  I'm trying to implement STACKS, so when an item that is already in the memx is added, i don't want a new instance of that item in there, I just want a corresponding index counter to be incremented.
Can you tell me how and where to do that?

If you already have such item, then increase its counter, and instead of pickup method, remove the object from the world (delete it).
Otherwise you can call pick up method.

Oh yeah. Suddenly I feel silly for not thinking of this.
Thanks, that should fix it
Now to have the memx NO_COPY_CONSTRUCTOR fixed and I can have my long desired inventory
Thank you.

Hello,

Memx does not have NO_COPY_CONSTRUCTOR.

Huh. Funny, I found this mentioned in another thread.
Then why when I do this:

Item x=inv.items[i]; //inv is the inventory class in the tutorials

Whenever I try to use anything related to that x item I get this error:
error c2783: 'void EE::Game::Obj::operator = (const EE::Game::Obj &)' : could not deduce template argument for 'UNUSED'

? I want to get an Item object, not reference, from that container. How should I do that if not this way?

Back to the "If you already have such item, then increase its counter, and instead of pickup method, remove the object from the world (delete it)." idea, how do I achieve that? Apparently Memx's search functions all work on address, and every single item in the world seems to be new to the container.

I have 3 apples on a table, my code:
if(!inv.items.contains(item))
itemPickUp(*item); // pick it up

doesn't stop the player from getting 3 distinct items instead of one. How can I use memx to check if the actual ITEM is already in there?

In that example, item should be pointing to the specific memory location of the one that is selected on your table. It is a very specific apple. contains() will only check to see if you have that specific apple, not any apple.
Check first to see if you have any items of the same type-maybe type APPLE. Doesn't matter, because you can check Items[x].type( ) == item.type( ); to test if they are the same type of item.

So... I should have a field that should define my item, just have the same object dragged & dropped in the world won't get me the same object :(.
So let's say I give every single object a distinctive parameter. To check the Memx for containing that specific parameter do I have any function, or do I have to iterate through the Memx and check all items myself?

Item has a type field already.
You are getting down to basic C++ here. Try checking out some examples of how simpler games use inventory systems-even text based games might offer some insight.

Type field is an enum, I don't think using an enumeration to distinguish apple, plum, banana, orange and so on is a good idea. But nevermind that, I'm just asking if there is a smooth way of searching memx by type, or do I have to do it myself, like this:

for(int i=0;i<items.absElms();i++)
if(items[i].name=<value>) return 1;
return 0;

//this would be a manual search. I'm pretty much obsessed by efficiency, so there's a better to search for an item by value not by address in that container I'd be happy to find out.

Hello,

I've redesigned game object item methods,
next release will have these changes:

Quote:-IMPORTANT: Game::Obj::item* methods were replaced with Game::World.move*ObjTo* methods (which allows much better flexibility of moving objects between the world and custom containers, for example previously characters were allowed to store only one class of item objects returned by 'itemContainer', now there's no such limit)
-IMPORTANT: because Game::Obj::itemContainer was removed and since in the past it was used to automatically save item objects in Game::Obj::save/load, now you need to manually save object item containers (if any) in your custom game object class

following methods will be available in Game::WorldManager