Equipping Items

[Woah]

I'm looking for a way to turn an item on/off, much like how you can turn the ExpShare on/off. This is so the player can "equip" the item from his bag, whereupon a switch would run from there until the item is no longer equipped.

For reference, here's the script that (somehow) defines the effect of the ExpShare in PItem_ItemEffects:

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:EXPALL,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:EXPALL,:EXPALLOFF)
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Exp Share was turned off."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:EXPALLOFF,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:EXPALLOFF,:EXPALL)
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Exp Share was turned on."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

Thanks

 

[Vendily]

So, if I understand, you want an Item that will turn a switch on and off? Okay.

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:ITEMON,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:ITEMON,:ITEMOFF)
   $game_switches[varnum] = true
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Item was unequiped."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:ITEMOFF,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:ITEMOFF,:ITEMON)
   $game_switches[varnum] = false
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Item was equiped."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

Replace varnum with the switch you want to change. This will turn the switch numbered varnum on and off.

Is that what you want?

EDIT: I feel that what you meant was an explanation. The EXPALL is almost a dummy item, the game just checks if you have it in your bag. $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem replaces all of the first item with the second one.

 

[Woah]

So, if I understand, you want an Item that will turn a switch on and off? Okay.

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:ITEMON,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:ITEMON,:ITEMOFF)
   $game_switches[varnum] = true
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Item was unequiped."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:ITEMOFF,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:ITEMOFF,:ITEMON)
   $game_switches[varnum] = false
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Item was equiped."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

Replace varnum with the switch you want to change. This will turn the switch numbered varnum on and off.

Is that what you want?

EDIT: I feel that what you meant was an explanation. The EXPALL is almost a dummy item, the game just checks if you have it in your bag. $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem replaces all of the first item with the second one.

I see. But, how do you plug a specific item into that script? Simply by replacing the "ITEM" in "ITEMON" with the name of the item?

 

[Vendily]

:ITEMON, and :ITEMOFF are the Internal names of the item.
See this is the first item in item.txt, a repel

1,[COLOR="Red"]REPEL[/COLOR],Repel,Repels,1,350,"An item that prevents weak wild Pokémon from appearing for 100 steps after its use.",2,0,0,

See that red section, all in capital, that's the internal name. You would have the internal name of the item there instead of ITEMON/ITEMOFF.
Defining an item
Item Effects

 

[Woah]

Ah, one step closer. Thanks for the help.

I'm able to get it to say "This item was equipped," but using it again does not undo it. It says the item is equipped over and over, plus the switch doesn't seem to activate. I may just be misunderstanding what you're saying though. To me, it seems like all ITEMON/OFFs would be entirely replaced by one item's internal name with no distinctive ON or OFF suffix. Like this, where I use REPEL as the item:

ItemHandlers::UseFromBag.add(:REPEL,proc{|item|
   $PokemonBag.pbChangeItem(:REPEL,:REPEL)
   $game_switches[varnum] = false
   Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The Item was equipped."))
   next 1 # Continue
})

That's what I'm getting. Seems like there should be a little more to it than that, especially since I can't un-equip the item.

EDIT: Never mind, I got it. Easy-peasy. Thanks again!