Items dragging not working as expected

Quick note: just woke up, so my head's a bit muggy at the minute.

dragged items require item dropped actions in scene objects/characters as they have no command attached to them. If you manually create an action inside of an item, say: left click > set command x, set item y then only an action like command x, item y (executed at destination or immediate) would work on scene objects/characters, but if you changed the active command then it would no longer register correctly.

Personally I'm not a fan of the built in item system; especially the dragged item system. I use a custom command based system for both commands & items because it's much easier to work with & I can use custom mouse cursors which I can assign to each command.

in the old days of early version 3 you could mix commands and onclick and the inventory worked fine, honestly I can't remember which version it changed.

I've never tried to achieve the same thing via script, I usually use the onclick and totally ignore the command system

in the old days of early version 3 you could mix commands and onclick and the inventory worked fine, honestly I can't remember which version it changed.

I've never tried to achieve the same thing via script, I usually use the onclick and totally ignore the command system

There's a reason I use commands. If you use a broken sword (single command interface) which a lot of people tend to do these days, then it's likely you have created mouse enters/leaves actions for each of your scene objects/characters which change the mouse cursor. Now, the problem with single command interface & using dragged items is that there's no if query action part to check if you are holding a dragged item (without scripting), & most people probably just add the change cursor action part into the mouse enter/leaves actions which causes the mouse cursor to be forced to whatever is specified, but if a dragged item is in hand the item remains while the cursor is now set to the examine, look, take, etc. cursor.

I use the broken sword interface myself - I have a single interaction command called "left_click", the rest of the commands I created are for items. On mouse enters/leaves I can query if command is "left_click" change cursor to "examine" end, which prevents cursor from being changed unless my standard command is the current command as all other commands = item. I use the same approach for right click (examine) scene objects/characters too, as I can query if command is "left_click" to perform some character observation actions/display texts otherwise it resets the command to standard command because an item must be in hand.

The other reason I use commands is because I can assign custom cursors into the properties section of each command which means I don't have to use the over-sized inventory item sprites nor suffer the animation center position (which coincidentally is in the exact center of dragged item cursor sprites rather than the top left).



versus...

Everything I've done in recent years was 1st person and quite simple

But I maybe going over to the darkside and a playerable character .. probably MI1 GUI affair, I don't know for sure yet

Thanks all,