Some of you I am sure are familiar with this bag that weaaddar made:
http://www.wc3campaigns.com/showthre...+drop+backpack
As you know this is a great bag. And I learned alot from him and his code.
However I decided to make a better one because I was in need for my new upcoming project. I also decided to take the time and release a pack containing the code necessary for others to make their own expanded bag.
As this is the first release it probably has some bugs. Let me know here and I will fix them and REPOST the new file HERE.
My routines offer the following advantages over Weaaddar's routines:
NO extra items created every time a unit changes his inventory status. This means that the bag you pick up is the SAME bag you dropped. However, ONE time an action and a full bag for each bag is created, that is picked up as well as 5 BLANK bags that while you never SEE are critical for this to work right.
NO issues with charged items. I never "touch" the item with regards to charges and therefore I have no issues in this regard.
FIVE slots available instead of FOUR. Yes that's 20% more space. Remember that while both of our bags offer more than 6 slots essentially only the ITEMS THAT ARE VISIBLE ON THE HERO ARE ACTUALLY HELPING THE HERO., So having one more slot available is one more thing the Hero can take advantage of at the same time. One button slot, does it all showing the number of free slots outside of the bag, while inside showing how many inventory slots left open, and when full showing this with a big red "x".
POSSIBLE ENHANCEMENT: In fact if you used the arrow keys you could actually have all 6 slots but then you would need to not have arrow keys for other things.
TRUE drag and drop. There is no limitation of drag and drop outside OR inside the bag itself. This includes dropping the bag you are in via clicking on the ACTION/FULL button and dropping the item. You can even swap a bag and an item as long as you are dragging the bag on top of the item. The reverse of course will put the item IN the bag :>
BAG within a BAG. That's right you can have as many bags as you want and have them buried inside of each other. While most people will not have a huge need for this my current project does need this.
BAGS can be either permanent or droppable. A bag that is permanent once picked up CANNOT be dropped and is always INSIDE the bag.
You can drop the bag from both inside and outside the bag.
VERY COOL icon interface. At least I think so :>
NEW BAG DOODADS courtesy of SOuNDSNC. More to come!
When you click on a bag to enter it your ACTION icon stays in the same location. It does NOT move to the bottom right. This I found to be very helpful in not getting confused.
Virtually ALL FEATURES can be defined without touching the actual code via external function links. IE BLANKBAG, FAKEBAG, and ADDBAG
Easy to cut and paste in 4 steps.
1. Copy this text into your maps header.
2. Copy the blank and fake bag icons into your map and in sets of 3 the backpack/napsack/sack/fannypacks items for the bag, action and full items.
NOTE: You only need one bag, I have enclosed 4 as samples.
3. Use as samples the trigger in Lets Do It and your done.
4. Go to Game Interface and pull the plug on the text for the Text Message - "Inventory Is full." message (3/4 way down list) by replacing with a " "(NOTE NOT A "" but have a space there) and then change SOUND - "Inventory Full" (1/2 way down list) to nothing. To do this you MUST have the shift key down when you open this field so you can replace with " ". The reason we are using " " instead of "" is because if you use "" it just uses the default and that wont help will it?
All code is in one easy to access place so if you are a jass pro its easy to see/change and add to.
Hope you like it please give feedback here.
Rod
