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Help with Shop Functionality
I was trying to be clever and store a shop's inventory as an array of objects and "auto build" the store in Harlowe 2:
The point was to have a purchasing screen that displayed more details about the object, and on purchase, subtract the money from the player's inventory, subtract the item from the store_inventory and add it to the player's inventory. However...
You more experienced people will immediately see the problem with my approach - the temporary variable "_item" is long gone when resolution of the click begins.
Is there a way to make something like this work?
(if: $store_inventory's length > 0)[(for: each _item, ...($store_inventory))[(print: _item's name): $(print:_item's price)(click:_item's name)[(print: _item)(set: $item_to_purchase to _item)(goto: "Purchasing")]]]
The point was to have a purchasing screen that displayed more details about the object, and on purchase, subtract the money from the player's inventory, subtract the item from the store_inventory and add it to the player's inventory. However...
You more experienced people will immediately see the problem with my approach - the temporary variable "_item" is long gone when resolution of the click begins.
Is there a way to make something like this work?