Need help changing images in hotspots with scripting

[jack8135]

Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I?m having creating a custom inventory. The inventory has 15 item slots (HotSpots) that can hold different items at various points in the game. For instance HotSpot 7 holds an item called ?empty vial? then, when the player adds liquid to it, HotSpot 7 will hold a new item called ?vial of liquid?. There are separate images for each item. Rather than stack several hotspots on top of each other I want to just change the image using scripting. My dilemma is I can?t figure out the scripting?

Here is what I have tried:

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If Action.GetCurrentFrameName = "inventory" Then
      If got vial empty = 1 Then Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7) "empty vial.gif"
   End If
If Action.GetCurrentFrameName = "inventory" Then
      If got vial of liquid = 1 Then Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7) "vial of liquid.gif"
   End If

But this comes back with the error ?Expected Then?.
Can someone explain how I can pull this off? It is possible isn?t it?

[reneuend]

Change the code to be more efficient. Also, variable names can't have spaces. I used underscores instead.

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If Action.GetCurrentFrameName = "inventory" Then
    If got_vial_empty = 1 Then
        Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7) "empty vial.gif"
    ElseIf got_vial_of_liquid = 1 Then
        Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7) "vial of liquid.gif"
    End If
End If


[jack8135]

reneuend,

Thank you for the response
I copied and pasted the code you supplied and then changed the variables so they have underscores but now when I hit "Apply" it has the error message Expected End of Statement.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the Help!

[reneuend]

Oh!!! You need commas after the 1st parameter for the Action.LoadAPicture call.

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Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7), "empty vial.gif"

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Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7), "vial of liquid.gif"

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If Action.GetCurrentFrameName = "inventory" Then
    If got_vial_empty = 1 Then
        Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7), "empty vial.gif"
    ElseIf got_vial_of_liquid = 1 Then
        Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(7), "vial of liquid.gif"
    End If
End If

[jack8135]

Thank you so much!
You've been a tremendous help both in the forums and with tutorials. You can expect to see a huge thank you in my game credits

Peace!