Drop Item to Equipped Slot/Lift worn item off

[Killface]

I'm really lazy, and the new moderators seem to need something productive to do, so merge this if its old i guess, but:

I would like to be able to pick an item up and drop it on a full equipment slot, and have the old item replace the new on cursor.
Seems like a realistic request, amirite?





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[sabinati]

agreed 100%

[loftar]

That'd be nice, but it's actually programmatically trickier than it might at first seem.

Part of the equipment "protocol" is checking whether all prerequisites for equipping an item are satisfied, which includes checking that the slot(s) the item might need is free. If there is already an item equipped there, the check will, therefore, fail. Thus, in order to equip an item in an occupied slot, the occupying item needs to be unequipped first.

I could, theoretically, unequip the current item, the try and equip the new item, and then, if that fails, reequip the old item, but the downsides to that option are that 1) the old item would still suffer the effects on unequipping (such as a torch being put out) and 2) it is unclear how to handle the old item refusing to reequip (such as would be the case with bloated leeches).

[sabinati]

could you make the old item go to a free space in inventory, and failing that, drop on the ground?

[Swordmage]

could you make the old item go to a free space in inventory, and failing that, drop on the ground?

Drop that nice shiny new hi-Q axe that is being swapped for a fishing pole (while sitting in a boat)?

[Lothaudus]

I could, theoretically, unequip the current item, the try and equip the new item, and then, if that fails, reequip the old item, but the downsides to that option are that 1) the old item would still suffer the effects on unequipping (such as a torch being put out) and 2) it is unclear how to handle the old item refusing to reequip (such as would be the case with bloated leeches).

If an item is on the cursor and you click an inventory slot, call the check to see if that item can be equipped but pass a flag to that function so that it ignores the "is the slot free" check.

If that is successful (so the item CAN be equipped), then item A is unequipped (and placed in some kind of temp program storage), item B is equipped and then item A is put on the cursor.

Issue: What if you're equipping a two-handed item (pickaxe) and have both hands already equipped (an axe and saw)? Well...

could you make the old item go to a free space in inventory, and failing that...

... refuse to do the swap.

[sabinati]

could you make the old item go to a free space in inventory, and failing that...

... refuse to do the swap.

yeah that's probably better