Loading Contents onto a map

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Jul 22 2011, 2:35 pm (Edited on Jul 22 2011, 2:42 pm)
How would I load contents onto a map, in specific order. I got it to display a background icon, and manually place items, but when I go to put the entire list into the map it messes up. The map is a secondary map. I'm not 100% sure on how to work a second map properly. I don't want to use grids. The map is what I want. My secondary map is a Skin, not an actual map. This is what I have for the display now.

        Update_Inventory()
            client.screen += new/obj/BG("InventoryMap:-8,4 to 1,0")
            client.screen += new/obj/items/equipment/weapon/swords/Basic("InventoryMap:-8,4")
            for(var/obj/items/T in usr.client.screen)
                world<<"[T.screen_loc]" //this is a detect for trying to figure out how to determine to place items in specific screen locs.


Any help on better understanding of this is greatly appreciated.
Jul 22 2011, 6:07 pm
I'm not sure, but a couple possibilities come to mind as I look at that.

- Why the -8? Doesn't that put most of the map off screen?
- I don't know how it really works, but I remember reading somewhere that the client.screen doesn't work like ordinary lists. So you might have to create a separate list of objects to go into the screen. Try, say, a var/list/obj/items/equipment/weapon/swords/Basic/Weapon_List = new /list(...) and work with the items from there.
- Double check where to set the screen_loc for the items.
Jul 23 2011, 7:27 am
In response to Pepper2000
Lol, The -8,4 confuses me, but it's where it shows up properly. You can load a list into the map, but I can't control where it's going? Like, I have no way of detecting if a space is occupied on the second map. That I know of. I've never used a second map like this.
Jul 23 2011, 9:04 am
In response to WickedlyAndy
Is it even possible to do an inventory on a secondary map?