Linked Books, Linked Bags, oh my!

[Lokai]

Linked Books, and Linked Bags

These are fun.

Mordero released his Journey Books, and was wondering if the same type of thing could be done without editing the basebook script. Here is his post:

[RunUO 2.0 RC1] Journey Books

But these 2 scripts are actually very different. The actual scripting of them were more inspired by my own release of the Linked Gates, which you can view here:

Linked Gates

First, the Linked Books.

The magic starts with a bag. A Bag of Linked Books. You double-click the empty bag, and you get 2 books, which are bound (no pun intended) to eachother forever. As long as the bag is empty, it will create 2 Linked Books every time you open it. (GM's only, although you can play with that part.)

Each book is just like a regular book in almost every way, except when you double-click it, it toggles between showing you its own contents, and that of it's mate. The mate acts the same way. Each time you open the book it will toggle back and forth, so it acts sort of like a magic communication device, I guess. Anyway, it's fun.

Next, the Linked Bags.

These are a riot. They are created in the same way. You get a Bag of Linked Bags. When you double-click the bag, it creates 2 Linked Bags (with your name on it too.)

The bags act like you would probably guess. When you drop something in one, it actually appears inside the other. It doesn't matter who is holding it, or where it is, if the bag can hold it, it will drop it in. (Don't worry, you can't give it to an enemy and overload him so you can PK him. It does the normal check to see if the bag can hold the contents.)

Installation:

Drop and go!

Maintenance:

If for some reason a mate gets deleted, you can target a new one by using [props. Enjoy!

UPDATES:

6/16/2007
- Added Linked Gates script to downloads.
- Edited Linked Books. Now you can open the 2nd book from anywhere in Read-Only mode.
- Updated Linked Bags to prevent them from accepting Linked Bags.

[Tru]

Excellent. Cool rewards!

[Lord_Greywolf]

Just noticed something with the books
if they are in 2 different packs - can not open the one in the other pack - it ignores the dbl click, and next time open yours again

if one is in pack and 1 in house (locked down or not) - one in pack can open both, but one in house can not open one in pack

and if both are in different houses and locked down - they can only open themselves and not the other one

so basicaly one person can carry it and write in the book in the house, or if both in same pack can write to both, otherwise problem

so any ideas on a fix?

[Lokai]

Originally Posted by Lord_Greywolf

Just noticed something with the books
if they are in 2 different packs - can not open the one in the other pack - it ignores the dbl click, and next time open yours again

if one is in pack and 1 in house (locked down or not) - one in pack can open both, but one in house can not open one in pack

and if both are in different houses and locked down - they can only open themselves and not the other one

so basicaly one person can carry it and write in the book in the house, or if both in same pack can write to both, otherwise problem

so any ideas on a fix?

Ah, there is my problem, playing all by myself on my little test server. Give me a bit, and I will think of it.

[Lokai]

Just updated the first post.

- Edited the Linked Books so when you double-click the 2nd time, no matter where the book is in the world it will show you the contents in Read-Only mode.
- Added my Linked Gates to the list of downloads, and separated the scripts into 3 zip files.

Originally Posted by Lokai

Just updated the first post.

- Edited the Linked Books so when you double-click the 2nd time, no matter where the book is in the world it will show you the contents in Read-Only mode.
- Added my Linked Gates to the list of downloads, and separated the scripts into 3 zip files.

can u show the changes because i had to change some things and forgot what i did.thxs

[Lokai]

I added this class:

    public sealed class LinkedBookHeader : Packet
    {
        public LinkedBookHeader(Mobile from, BaseBook book)
            : base(0xD4)
        {
            string title = book.Title == null ? "" : book.Title;
            string author = book.Author == null ? "" : book.Author;
            byte[] titleBuffer = Utility.UTF8.GetBytes(title);
            byte[] authorBuffer = Utility.UTF8.GetBytes(author);
            EnsureCapacity(15 + titleBuffer.Length + authorBuffer.Length);
            m_Stream.Write((int)book.Serial);
            m_Stream.Write((bool)true);
            m_Stream.Write((bool)book.Writable);
            m_Stream.Write((ushort)book.PagesCount);
            m_Stream.Write((ushort)(titleBuffer.Length + 1));
            m_Stream.Write(titleBuffer, 0, titleBuffer.Length);
            m_Stream.Write((byte)0); // terminate
            m_Stream.Write((ushort)(authorBuffer.Length + 1));
            m_Stream.Write(authorBuffer, 0, authorBuffer.Length);
            m_Stream.Write((byte)0); // terminate
        }
    }

And changed this part of the OnDoubleClick method:

            from.Send(new LinkedBookHeader(from, book)); //changed this line
            from.Send(new BookPageDetails(book));
            Toggle = !Toggle;
        }

[Lord_Greywolf]

will give it a try at least this way they can read it

did you change linkbags at all? (i have not noticed any problem with them yet - just making sure of no changes)

with the bags that is if u drop the linked bag into the other liked bag they will remove each other and become part of the internal items.
need a check to not allow u to drop the bag in one another.
i like the scripts alot u the man lokai

[Lokai]

Originally Posted by andrewd

with the bags that is if u drop the linked bag into the other liked bag they will remove each other and become part of the internal items.
need a check to not allow u to drop the bag in one another.
i like the scripts alot u the man lokai

Thanks for the unusual error catch there. I will check it out.

[Lokai]

This ought to take care of it:

        public override bool OnDragDropInto(Mobile from, Item item, Point3D p)
        {
            if (item is LinkedBag) return false; //This line added.

I updated the download with this also.

[Lokai]

Originally Posted by Lord_Greywolf

will give it a try at least this way they can read it

did you change linkbags at all? (i have not noticed any problem with them yet - just making sure of no changes)

No other changes except the one andrewd found, which is fixed now.

[Hanse_T_Insane]

How would you set it so that gold and powerscrolls could not be used with it?

[Fenn]

on line 36 of LinkedBags.cs:

            if (item is LinkedBag) return false;

You can limit the items to go in there. If you didn't want gold or power scrolls, you could do the following:

            if( item is LinkedBag || item is Gold || item is PowerScroll ) return false;

[Dodger-b]

the zip files for bags and books are empty the gates worked great

[oiii88]

Originally Posted by Dodger-b

the zip files for bags and books are empty the gates worked great

Winrar will repair the archive... But in case you or someone else doesnt have winrar here is the .cs files.

[Dodger-b]

i have win rar and Izarc winrar said they were empty wouldnt open them izarc opened them to empty folders tyvm for the files