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sporefreak wrote: would it be possible to make it sort when you close your inventory?

Kruparker wrote:I'm not sure how game.players[] work, so it could not work in multi, I still have to test it.

MrDoomah wrote: When someone presses the button, you'll get a player_index. You can put this into game.players[player_index] instead of game.players[1].

Api doc wrote: on_gui_click

Called when LuaGuiElement is clicked.
Contains
element :: LuaGuiElement: The clicked element.
player_index :: uint: The player who did the clicking.

MrDoomah wrote: You also want to initialise the button with the on_player_created event. (This one also gives you a player_index).

Kruparker wrote:

sporefreak wrote: would it be possible to make it sort when you close your inventory?

I don't think so.
I didn't find any event related to inventory (or key press), this is why the button is always visible.
You can click it whenever you want to sort your inventory.

sporefreak wrote:

Kruparker wrote:

sporefreak wrote: would it be possible to make it sort when you close your inventory?

I don't think so.
I didn't find any event related to inventory (or key press), this is why the button is always visible.
You can click it whenever you want to sort your inventory.

Would it work as a timer? Sorting at set intervals?
I don't like the idea of pressing a button to sort (I know I'm lazy but it gets tedious and I would never remember to do it)
If that's not possible then I might just make a script to sort when I open/close my inventory, Based on this mod. Thanks for the replies

Kruparker wrote:hummm so opened_self was player inventory opened... not very clear >.<
Thanks !

I'll search if it's possible to add the button to the existing inventory gui.
At least, I could show the button when inventory is opened, hide it when inventory is closed.
and maybe add a configuration screen with a "sort on inventory exit " checkbox. But I'm still not sure if it's a good idea


PS : The method I use to sort inventory is not clean, really dirty. (create some fake chests, add items to chest, send them back inventory)
Because I find no way to work on COPIES(not references) of ItemStack.
I need real copies, I can't just create some vars, because I have to keep track of : bars, health, blueprintsetup/icons..., armor grid
LUA *~#{^# references everywhere makes it impossible because clear inventory means clear my vars >.>

If someone read this, and know how to do it, you'll have my eternal gratitude.

require "util"
copy = util.table.deepcopy(table)

MrDoomah wrote:

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require "util"
copy = util.table.deepcopy(table)

This creates a complete copy of a table, not just another reference. If you change a value in copy, it doesn't change it in table.

for i=1, inventorySize do
	if inventory[i].valid_for_read then
		memInventory = util.table.deepcopy(inventory[i])
		memInventory.count = memInventory.count + 1
		game.players[p_index].print("m:" .. memInventory.name .. ":" .. memInventory.count .. " i:" .. inventory[i].name .. ":" .. inventory[i].count )
	end
end