Creatures Caves

Today while rooting around in the bootstrap folders for code examples that I could attach to new wiki articles on CAOS commands, I found this in the 'ds gui - inventory.cos' file:

* This little script checks to see if the hand is holding something
* over the inventory. If so, it makes the inventory pop out so you can
* drop things into it. It was decided during testing of C3 that this was
* annoying rather than helpful - you decide! Uncommenting the following script
* will restore this feature.
*
*scrp 1 2 11 75
* inst
* targ pntr
* doif held <> null
* doif hots = ownr
* targ ownr
* doif ov00 = 0 and clac = 0
* mesg writ targ 0
* endi
*
* endi
* endi
*endm

Well, you also have to uncomment this line at the top first:

*imsk 4

...but it does work!

Caveat: you do have to jam your cursor pretty well into the inventory area, not just hover over the edge of the button - if you really wanted, you could just drop stuff into the inventory blind, but this way lets you organize things. Other than that, it works pretty nicely!

Thought I would share for other people who might like this feature, especially since it's such an easy change to make or undo.

For those who don't know, 'uncomment' just means to take away the * in front of the code lines ('scrp 1 2 11 75' and so on - don't uncomment the paragraph explaining what the code does). Also, the changes will only show up in newly created worlds. If you want to change the inventory script for an older world, after you've edited the .cos file, go to that world, hit ctrl-shift-c to bring up the command line, then type:

ject "ds gui - inventory.cos" 7

to see the new inventory behavior. This will empty out your inventory if anything is in it.