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Your solution works great - not surprising  . The fact that I can directly call functions other than the automatically assigned ones from the event pan is great thing, I didn't know they could be used like that, I must have missed it. Thank you very much for your time, to all of you.

Hello AGS comunnity!

I really honestly tried to find a solution to my problem myself, the solution that works for me seems too weird.

So - I have two objects in a room located on same place (a cabinets with an open/closed door) and I want the door to open and close by clicking, by changing the visibility of the objects. I was try:
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1: In this version, only the first part ("opening the cabinet") works, and the game does not respond to further clicks.

Code: ags

function oCabinetClose_Interact()
{
if ((oCabinetClose.Visible == true) && (oCabinetOpen.Visible == false))
  {
    oCabinetClose.Visible = false;
    oCabinetOpen.Visible = true;
  }
  else if ((oCabinetClose.Visible == false) && (oCabinetOpen.Visible == true))
  {
  oCabinetClose.Visible = true;
  oCabinetOpen.Visible = false;
  }
 
} 

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2: In this attempt, only the first part works again (again only "opened door"), but I suspect that this code is completely wrong.

Code: ags

function oCabinetClose_Interact()
{
 int i;
 i = oCabinetClose.Visible == true;
 if (i == true)
 {
  oCabinetClose.Visible = false;
 }
 else if (i == false)
 {
  oCabinetClose.Visible = true;
 }
}

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3: The only solution I came up with is to use a function on both objects.

Code: ags

function oCabinetClose_Interact()
{
if (oCabinetClose.Visible == true)
{
  oCabinetOpen.Visible = true;
  oCabinetClose.Visible = false;
}
}


function oCabinetOpen_Interact()
{
if (oCabinetOpen.Visible == true)
{
  oCabinetOpen.Visible = false;
  oCabinetClose.Visible = true
}
}

This work, but I suspect the situation could be handled much more elegantly. I hope that you, experienced guys, can advise how to solve such situations.

I will also add that BaselineOverriden is false, oCabinedClose is visible after startup(on top of oCabinetOpen), I make sure that the visibility states in the properties correspond to the start of code.

Thank you

Hello all,

as a newbie in learning AGS i try to go through all the available web tutorials that exist. I finished the official ags tutorial and the ags book (Foxy Monk quest). I think that a lot of users on this forum have (or had  ) a similar experience with trying to absorb knowledge about AGS and that's why I'm asking if anyone knows of other good tutorials that they would recommend? I'm talking about text-based ones, not youtubers, those are relatively easy to find. I would also like to know how the rest of you learn to control AGS? Thank you very much.

Webpages of the book is: https://ensadi.github.io/AGSBook/index.html
Chapter 1.5.5 "Using inventory items" , almost entirely down on this page is "Homework" paragraph.

Author is Dave Ensminger. I look at youtube channel given by you and in information section is the author nickname @densming - so i think this is same author. Thanks for the tip! I must definitely see these videos and look for a solution to my code.

Hello to all,

First need to say that i am a complete newbie when it comes to coding adventure games with AGS. I try to learn with help of book "Game desing with AGS" (second edition, v. 1.0). That book is pretty cool, explains the procedures very patiently and well. But at ends of some chapters there are "Homework" task. Now i get to end of chapter 1.5.5. (inventory items) where homeworks ask for making some things which i dont know how to do (throwing the stick), again i am a newbie If somebody in past get through this book, maybe was try wrote this part of code and save it for worse times   ? will be grateful if someone can show me that. Or is there any place (webpages/forums) where is this homeworks explained?  Thank you very much.