inventory system

[B&CEntertainment]

Just starting out with the software trial; I'm considering RunRev as an engine for a new FPGA point and click my studio is working on, similar to Alida. I'm having a little trouble finding a way to code a sustainable inventory system throughout the game. I've been talking briefly with Alida's creator about the scripting but I was wondering if somebody on the forums might have an idea on how to adequately set this up. Essentially all I am looking to create is a box on the peripheral of the screen that contains thumbnail views of items currently in the player's possession. The player should be able to pick up items throughout the game world, at which point they shrink to fit inside the Inventory display, and take them with him as he navigates from screen to screen. He should then also be able to remove the item from his inventory so that it may be used elsewhere with another designated item. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm still monitoring my 30 day trial of RunRev and I have to say, regardless of whether this product is top quality or not, I'm dismayed at how diminished the online community is in support of this product. There are hardly any tutorials, tips, or general advice to be found anywhere and even the official forums are surprisingly lacking in thorough information (type in "actionscript" in google and see what comes up, then do the same with "runtime revolution", you'll see what I mean) . Furthermore, the tutorials and literature packaged with the trial is sparse and vague at best. I'm unsure of how effective the software really is because there simply isn't enough documentation to really show me what its capable of. Its really the only thing stopping me from going ahead with RunRev for our engine.

[Mark]

Dear B&CEntertainment,

The nice thing of Revolution in this case is that objects such as fields and buttons are nearly physical. You can drag any object to a particular area, or even to a different window, and hence automatically know what is in inventory. To get a list of items in that area, just do something like this:

repeat with x = 1 to number of buttons
if the loc of btn x is within the rect of grc "Inventory" and the cInventory of btn x is true then
put the short name of btn x & cr after myList
end if
end repeat
-- do something with myList here

If you want to save player information between sessions, it is probably best to use keep the play field together with the inventory and other dynamic windows in a separate stack file and save this stack file when the player stops playing.

Best regards,

Mark