How do I Close Inventory and return to previous Passage?

Explorer

I've been following this tutorial on how to make an inventory system: http://gersande.com/designing-inventories-in-twine-2-with-the-built-in-harlowe-macros/#1

It's been really helpful so far, until I ran into their comment about using (history:)'s last. I don't want to use it because this is going to be a long game that may or may not have an option to view the inventory from a lot of different passages.

I want to have later passages that only happen if you have a certain item in your inventory.

How would I go about doing this in Harlowe?

greyelf

I believe point 4.1 in that tutorial shows the code used to add a link which will move the Reader forward to the previously show Passage.
edit: I should learn to read the whole of a question!

Your other option is to use a variable to track the last non-inventory passage shown, and then to use a link based on that variable.

1. Add a header tagged passage to your story and place the following in it, it tracks all passages that do not contain an inventory tag

{(if: not ((passage:)'s tags contains "inventory"))[
	(set: $last to (passage:)'s name)
]}

2. Add an inventory tag to all Passage's related to Inventory

3. Use the following link to move forward to the last non-inventory passage.

(link-goto: "Last", $last)

Explorer

It gets stuck on the first page of the Inventory (where it lists what you have). When I hit Last on that page, it just reloads that page.

greyelf

Did you assign an inventory tag to the first page (passage) of the Inventory?

Explorer

Yes. And for every subsequent passage in the inventory. The subsequent passages return to the first inventory passage.

greyelf

I have attached an archive file containing a demo, use the Import From File option to import the Close Inventory Demo project and then run it.

Explorer

It works! Thank you so much. I think I might have misspelled something which was causing it not to work.