EventTypes

Event Types

The following events are available in the "Events" section of the Properties Window (when clicking the lightning bolt icon).

Hotspot events

Player stands on hotspot

occurs repeatedly while the player character is standing on the hotspot.

Look at hotspot

occurs when the player clicks on the hotspot while in the "Look" mode (cursor mode 1).

Interact with hotspot

occurs when the player clicks on the hotspot while in the "Interact" mode (cursor mode 2).

Use inventory on hotspot

occurs when the player clicks on the hotspot while in the "Use inventory" mode (cursor mode 4). You can use the player.ActiveInventory property to distinguish which item they used.

Speak to hotspot

occurs when the player clicks on the hotspot while in the "Talk" mode (cursor mode 3).

Any click on hotspot

occurs when the player clicks on the hotspot in any cursor mode (except Walk). This allows you to add extra modes like smell, taste, push, pull, and so on. This event also occurs as well as the other event for the Look, Interact and Talk modes.

Mouse moves over hotspot

occurs repeatedly while the mouse cursor is over the hotspot. You can use this to highlight the cursor, and for other various effects.

Object events

Look at object

occurs when the player clicks on the object while in the "Look" mode (cursor mode 1).

Interact with object

occurs when the player clicks on the object in the "Interact" mode (cursor mode 2).

Speak to object

occurs when the player clicks on the object in the "Talk" mode (cursor mode 3).

Use inventory on object

works like "Use inventory on hotspot" - see that description (above) for more information.

Room events

Walk off left

occurs when the player character walks off the left edge of the screen.

Walk off right

occurs when the player walks off the right edge of the screen.

Walk off bottom

occurs when the player character walks off the bottom edge of the screen.

Walk off top

occurs when the player character walks off the top edge of the screen.

First time enters room

occurs the first time the player enters the room. This event occurs AFTER the screen has faded in, so it allows you to display a message describing the scene.

Player enters room (before fade-in)

occurs just after the room is loaded into memory. This event occurs every time the player enters the screen, and it happens BEFORE the screen has faded in, which allows you to change object graphics and do other things to the screen which the player won't notice.

NOTE: This event is ONLY meant for adjusting things such as object and character placement. Do NOT use this event for any sort of automated intro to the room - use the "Enters Room After Fade In" event for that instead.

Repeatedly execute

occurs repeatedly on every interpreter cycle. The normal game speed is 40 cycles per second, so this event occurs about every 25 milliseconds.

Player enters room (after fade-in)

occurs every time the player enters the room, AFTER the screen has faded-in. Suitable for displaying text descriptions and so on, that you want the player to see.

Player leaves room

occurs when the player leaves the screen, just before the screen fades out.

Inventory item events

Look at inventory

occurs when the player clicks on the inventory item while in the "look" mode.

Interact with inventory

currently, because the Interact mode selects the inventory item, this event can only be triggered by manually calling the InventoryItem.RunInteraction script function (i.e. you have to use the Handle Inv Clicks in Script option).

Speak to inventory

only applies to the LucasArts-style inventory, occurs when the player clicks the Talk icon on the inventory item.

Use inventory on inv

occurs when the player uses another inventory object on this one. You can use the player.ActiveInventory property to distinguish which item they used.
This event allows the player to combine items, and so on. For example, if they had picked up a laptop computer and a battery separately, then you could use this to allow them to insert the battery into the computer.

Other click on inventory

only applies to the LucasArts-style inventory, occurs when the player clicks any other cursor mode (apart from look, talk and use_inv) on the item.