Trying to activate Clickable:onClick() via script object.

[unconscious]

Hello, I''m just getting into grim2 modding. I'm pretty familiar with lua, but it's not my forte as a programmer. I've searched for 12 hours before I broke down and asked this question, so I'm sorry if it's been solved before.

I have the asset pack v2 and Jkos's amazing grim2 hook framework.
One thing, I cannot use defineObject with a fw_addHooks call despite following install instructions.
fw_addHooks just throws an attempt to call global (nil val error). That's not too important yet.

The real thing I'm trying to get working is to activate an onClick() hook via script.
I'm trying to activate a healing crystal without clicking it, so I have this function that is called by floor trigger:

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function actcrystal()
	hc.clickable:onClick()
	hudPrint("Your mind feels at ease...")
end

where hc is the healing_crystal id. I've tried all varieties of clickable, Clickable, without that table deref, etc... Please help.

Thank you, I'm very frustrated as this should be extremely simple, but lua has had a history of doing this to me. (My touchscreen gui in minecraft opencomputers should not have taken 12 hours xD) Please let me know if you require any more information, thank you.

Unconscious

[Isaac]

onClick is a hook. To use it, you should define a connector to the clickable component.

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hc.clickable:addConnector('onClick', self.go.id, 'actcrystal')
active = true  --to prevent message if clicked while crystal is inactive.

function actcrystal()
	if active then
		active = false
		hudPrint("Your mind feels at ease...")
		hudPrint("") hudPrint("") --message spacer
		delayedCall(self.go.id, hc.crystal:getCooldown(), "resetActive")
	end	
end

function resetActive()
	active = true
end

Note that in the game (as opposed to the editor), the Hud prints "Game Saved" when a crystal is clicked.

If you want the "Game Saved" message not to display, then use this script instead:

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hc.clickable:addConnector('onClick', self.go.id, 'catchClick')
active = true

function actcrystal()
		hudPrint("") hudPrint("") hudPrint("")
		hudPrint("") hudPrint("") hudPrint("")
		hudPrint("Your mind feels at ease...")
end

function resetActive()
	active = true
end

function catchClick()  
	if active then
		active = false
		delayedCall(self.go.id, .001, "actcrystal")
		delayedCall(self.go.id, hc.crystal:getCooldown(), "resetActive")
	end	
end

[unconscious]

Dude, thank you! That just told me a ton about how the engine works. I've been just looking through all the asset files to get a glimpse but wasn't making a connection.(ba dum tsh)

I look forward to becoming active in this community, I'm developing a nightmare designed to force the player to explore himself as a person. So it's story driven along with programming practice driven.

Thank you again Isaac! You propelled me up the learning curve.

[Isaac]

Here is a link to the most current (user updated) LoG2 scripting reference.

https://github.com/JKos/log2doc/wiki

[unconscious]

Hate to be a buggy bumper, I already really appreciate your help! Do you happen to know anything about why fw_addHooks is throwing global nil inside defineObject?

[Isaac]

Hate to be a buggy bumper, I already really appreciate your help! Do you happen to know anything about why fw_addHooks is throwing global nil?

Offhand... no (I've never really used it myself).

The man to ask is minmay; he'll be around shortly. (or Jkos of course... but he's not been around in years.)

https://sites.google.com/site/jkoslog2/

Dude, thank you! That just told me a ton about how the engine works.

About the engine hooks... There are two ways to use them. The one shown above, and to define them in the object. When defined in the object, many of the hooks can cancel the event that called them, by returning false.

So... returning false from the onPickUpItem() hook, means that the item cannot be picked up.

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defineObject{
	name = "party",
	baseObject = "party",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Party",
			onPickUpItem = function(self, item)
				if item.go.name == "boulder" then
						for x = 1,7 do hudPrint("") end
						hudPrint("It\'s too heavy to lift!")
						item.go:setWorldPositionY(.2)
						if not item.go.gravity then item.go:createComponent('Gravity'):setDestroySelf(true) end
						playSound('party_move_overloaded')
					return false
				end	
			end
		},
	},
}

[Zo Kath Ra]

I'm trying to activate a healing crystal without clicking it, so I have this function that is called by floor trigger:

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function actcrystal()
	hc.clickable:onClick()
	hudPrint("Your mind feels at ease...")
end

where hc is the healing_crystal id.

Isaac described how you can call a script when the player clicks on a healing crystal.
But your post sounds like you want the opposite:
A script that clicks on the healing crystal for the player.

Instead of (for example) a pressure plate that opens/closes/toggles a door, you want a pressure plate that clicks on a healing crystal.

Doors have open/close/toggle functions that you can call, but as far as I'm aware, healing crystals (or clickable components) do not have a click function.

But there is CrystalComponent:deactivate() which you can use to simulate what you what.
Connect a pressure plate to this function:

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function heal()
	if hc.crystal:isEnabled() then
		hc.crystal:deactivate()
		party.party:heal()
		hudPrint("Your mind feels at ease...")
	end
end

edit: this doesn't save the game, though