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hey folks, here I am again.
I was working on my game, trying to modify the gui. it was pretty simple so far, until I wanted to change major things.

So what I wanna do is therotecly simple.

I used the gui from a standard-AGS-Game. not when you move ypur cursor to the top of the screen, the ICONBAR will appear. but, I don't really need the iconbar for my game cuz, I have attached the INVENTORY-BAR to the bottom of the screen but I need the iconbar  for options like "save","load","exit" etc.
So what I want, is that the iconbar pops up into as a small window, wenn the player clicks on an "option-button" on my (always visible) Inventory bar.
But it is the other way round. I can let the Inventory-window appear by clicking on a button in the iconbar. But, as I said, I want the (smaller) Iconbar appear, when the player clicks on a button in my "inventory-bar".
Everything I tried so far, failed.
I read a bunch of tutorials for making gui's but, they don't handle those kind of function.
has anybody an idea?

It just has to be something like

if (interface == IVENTORY) {
    if (button == 2) {  // show iconbar
      show_iconbar_window();

But that didn't work out. Where do I have to declare the "show_iconbar_window-function"

I really need some help.

well it's me again. with a simple problem I can't solve.
I know this problem has been discussed before, but I couldn't find a working solution...probably cuz I'm an idiot.

I want to animate an object (doors of an elevator).
it should start animating (doors shall open) whhen the elevator button was clicked (interact with button).

So far no problem, but how the heck do I make an object loop?
I animated the character in many ways, but that was simple, I just added a loop to another view of the character. how do I do this with objects?

does anyone now a short, simple script and where to paste it?

what I have so far are 5 pictures of the elevatordoors. each one symbolises a frame for the animaton. how to go on

heh folks, I got another tricky question for ya:

I want a theoreticly simple thing, but I just can't figure out how to do it:
I want my character to open a door by clicking on it. so far no problem:

I created a object (picture of closed door) and put it over the background at the position, where the background shows an open door.

on
interact  object-->
- Character -  move character (moves character in front of the door
- character - quick animation (animation how he moves his hand to open the door)
- object - remove an object from the room (lets the closed-door-objekt disappear)

Here comes the problem: when the door is open, I want the player to be able to move my character through the door into the next room.

solutions that didn't work:

1. interact  object-->
- Character -  move character
- character - quick animation
- object - remove an object from the room
- player - got to a differnt room

(doesn't work, cuz now he enters the next room, just wehen he opens the door. thats not what I want)

2.
interact  object-->
- Character -  move character
- character - quick animation
- object - remove an object from the room

then a hotspot over the door-region and

interact with hotspot
- player - got to a differnt room

(doesn't work, cuz now I have to use the interact function to walk in the next room. I want it to work with the "walk to-function"

3.
make baseline for top-egde 

walk off the top screen edge
player - go to a different room

(doesn't work, cuz now I have to declare a region at the opt of the top-screen-edge as a walkable area and if I do so, the character can walk over the door, what looks really stupid.

has anybody an idea, how I can do this. and pls don't tell me, that there would be an easier way by just use my first solution and just let the caracter enter the room by interacting with the door-object.

I know it works, cuz in zak mc kracken, its done, with just the first door.(the one through which he leaves his sleeping-room)
So, it CAN be done....but how?!
please help

interact  object-->
- Character -  move character
- character - quick animation
- object - remove an object from the room

hey, this is an easy one:
I want my character to to kneel down or to bend down, when he's picking up SOME objekts. how do I do this? I tried to make new loops for that, but they were already declared as something (f.e. up,down etc....I already have those, this was just an example)
so, hot to tell my character to get down while taking theese objects???