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Hello,

I just started on my first AGS game (using AGS 3.1.1) a few days ago and already ran into trouble:
How can I find out, which index/position an InventoryItem has in the inventory?

I have a lot of combining and swapping in the inventory going on, so I really need a way to figure that out. Right now, thats my approach - and its obviously wrong:

Code: ags

function getIndex(InventoryItem* item) {
  int i=0;
  while(i<(InventoryWindow1.ItemCount)) {
    if(InventoryWindow1.ItemAtIndex[i]==item) return i+1;
    i++;
  }
  return 1;
}

// Some simplified test code: Taking an item (testItem) apart, resulting in two new items (testItem2 and testItem3)
// This happens, when the user is doing a certain action on "testItem"
int index = getIndex(testItem);
player.AddInventory(testItem2, index);
player.AddInventory(testItem3, index+1);
player.LoseInventory(testItem);

If you wonder, why exactly that does not work for me: I quite often have the case of several identical items in the inventory. My getIndex-Function will always return the first of those, but this is not necessarily the one, the user clicked on.

This probably is quite a dumb question, but any help would be greatly appreciated. :-)