Unable to select/use inventory items

[TheEyess]

Hey there,

I'm a newbie on AGS and I know this topic has already been discussed quite a few times, but I still haven't been able to find a solution in the forum.

My problem is this: I have an inventory bar in my game and items seem to be added correctly to it. However, I am unable to click on the item in my inventory and consequently, unable to use it on objects or hotspots in my room.

I doublechecked and all the "clickable" and "enabled"-parameters of both the inventory GUI and the inventory window where my items appear are set to "true".

I also enabled "Override built-in inventory window click handling" in general settings, heaving read that this might be a solution. I also made sure that my inventory window is big enough to accomodate my item's sprites.

Still, none of this has worked so far and I can't seem to find the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Snarky]

Typically this problem is caused by not setting the item dimension properties for the inventory, so that the actual "clickable" part of the items is only a small corner of the sprite.

Another possibility is that a different, invisible GUI is covering up your inventory GUI.

A third possibility is an AGS bug that was discovered today, if you are calling SayBackground() from repeatedly_execute() (or any of that family of functions).

[TheEyess]

Thanks for ur answer!

The ItemHeight and Width parameters are both set to the size of my sprite.

The only other GUI I have at this point is a text window UI that seems to be working as it should, so that does not seem to be it.

Finally, in "repeatedly execute", I had the following function i found in an effort to solve the problem:

Code: ags

 InventoryItem *item = InventoryItem.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y);
if (item != null)
    item.RunInteraction(mouse.Mode); 

Deleting it didn't seem to change anything, neither to the better nor the worse.

[TheEyess]

UPDATE:

Recreated my game from the template and it now seems to work. Apparently, I started my first try from a blank file so I was missing some essential code. Sorry for the trouble!

[Snarky]

All right, glad you got it to work!

[Khris]

I also enabled "Override built-in inventory window click handling" in general settings

Just for reference, turning on this option means you need to write code to be able to select an item (specifically, a block in on_mouse_click that deals with button == eMouseLeftInv).

Without custom inv click handling, interacting with an item should be enough to select it.