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Was able to solve it myself.

After some digging in the manuals, it seems that AGS is actually calculating based on the height of the GUI bg and the inventory thumbnail height, if the item is added to the second line or not.

RowCount property (inv window)

readonly int InvWindow.RowCount;

Gets the number of rows that can be displayed within the inventory window. This is calculated by dividing the height of the window by the individual ItemHeight.

Example:

Display("The inventory window can show %d items at a time", invMain.ItemsPerRow * invMain.RowCount);

displays how many items can be visible in the invMain window at once.

See Also: InvWindow.ItemHeight, InvWindow.ItemsPerRow

The height of my item thumbnails was 21, the height of the GUIControl Object 41.   41 / 31 < 2 so, only one Row was filled.

A good example to make simple things extremely complicated, but at least I know the trick now ;-)

I am using AGS 3.5.0 and the Tumbleweed template and are struggeling with a problem related to the invetory slots.
The template has a 4x2 Grid for items.

As long as I am not adding more than 4 inventory items to the inventory, everything is fine. The items are lined up
in the first row, starting from the left to the right.
However when I add the 5th item with player.AddInventory, the 5th item is not added to the second empty row as expected.
Instead its added to the third row which is only accessable by scrolling.

So in the end, I have:   Row 1: 4 items, Row 2: 0 items, Row 3: 1 item.

Any idea what's wrong or where I can changed that behaviour so that the item is added correctly to the empty row 2 instead of row 3?

Thank you for your help!

["#Error: Unable to restore saved game": Missmatching number of views."]

I have an odd, but very frustrating issue during development with AGS, and wonder if this could be solved:

I have several save games. Howevr, each time I add a new view to the game (which is not even used), all
saved games made prior to tat change cannot be loaded anymore.

It only gives me an error "#Error: Unable to restore saved game": Missmatching number of views."

Is there a way to keep those saved game states working during development when new views are added?
Or do I have to start all over againg from the beginning each time I want to test a certain scene of my game?

Examples in Rooms Rep Execute

Code: ags

if (Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == hotspot[1]) {
 cEgo.Say("Captain. We are bordering on an unauthorised area.");
}
else if (Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == hotspot[2]) {
  //Change cursor graphic for Hotspot 2
}

//Etc for other hotspots

//the same applies for Object.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) and Character.getAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y).

Hope this helps...

Not really, this is a routine to check if a certain hotspot is located at given coordinates of the courser. It returns a bolean.

I actually need a method that is returning x & y coordinates of a given hotspot to hand them over to FaceLocation to make the player facing the hotspod, and not facing the cursor position.

[int MouseY=mouse.y;]

When you use mouse.x and mouse.y is not very good solution, cause if you move the mouse they'll change.
So either you save them, by using int MouseY=mouse.y; and int MouseX=mouse.x; right at the start of the function and then use MouseY and MouseX, or the better solution is to just tell it to FaceDirection=Left since you know which direction he will have to use . 

That's a possible workaround I also had in my mind. However as a programmer, I struggle to believe that there is no possibility to get the hotspots location and use that information for FaceLocation.
Without that, the whole FaceLocation functions looks kinda useless to me. At least in combination with hotspots (objects do provide x, y coordinates).

[This is my setup (using the Timbleweed config):]

I am heavyly struggeling with FaceLocation in AGS 3.5. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

This is my setup (using the Timbleweed config):

1. I have a hotspot in a room (basically a plant in the background). The user is able to interact with it via following code

Code: ags

function plant_AnyClick()
{
  player.FaceLocation(mouse.x, mouse.y, eBlock);
  if (Verbs.UsedAction(eGA_LookAt)) {
    player.Say("A little plant I bought at the gas station.");
  }
  else Verbs.Unhandled();

2. I also defined a WalkToPoint right of the plant hotspot

3. In the General Settings I set all options under "CHARACTER MOVEMENT" to true.

4. Walking-Animations for left, right etc. are all set correctly for the player. Same for the talking animations.

This is what I would expect:

1. I trigger "Look at" while clicking on the plant. 
2. The player moves to the WalkToPoint that is defined on the plant (hotspot)
3. Since the WalkToPoint is located right from the hotspot, I would expect the player
    to always look to the left once he arrives at the WalkToPoint.

This is what happens:

Sometimes it works correctly, but sometimes the player looks in the wrong direction when
he arrives at the WalkToPoint and starts talking. It seems like something randomly affects the calculation
what is left and what is right of the player. It also seems that the closer the WalkToPoint is located near the hotspot itself
the more often the wrong direction is chosed.


My theories:

1. mouse.x, mouse.y might change to something else while walking to the walktopoint is still in progress and causing the facelocation method to use the wrong coordinates
    (the mouse is NOT locked while walking, so I guess the coordinates can be overwritten here?

2. maybe something wrong with the timing? Since I can't define a eBlock for WalkToPoint, the facelocation might be triggered to early?


What puzzles me most is, that according to the API, there is no way to get a hotspots x, y coordinates. I guess player.FaceLocation(myhotspot.x, myhotspot.y, eBlock); would solve my problems within seconds.

Anyone else got an idea?

Thank you CaptainD.

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thank you guys.

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