assigning tags to newly purchased items

[ShadowWalker]

I want to assign a tag to a pick after it has been purchased based on what was selected in a menu item on the buy template.

I have items that have a Quality (similar to cyberware grades in shadowrun) and I thought the best way to deal with it was with assigning a tag at the time of purchase.

I was originally thinking of doing it in the Transact Buy script but it can't done there since it's not a pick at that point. Where would I be able to still see what was selected on the template and be able to access the pick to add a tag?

[Mathias]

Shadowrun does that with a pick inside the cyberware's gizmo. The xactbuy script sets the value of a drop-down field on that pick, based on the cyberware grade that was set by the user in the buy template, and then a script on that pick assigns the correct tag.

[ShadowWalker]

So I created an entity, and have a bootstrap of a thing with a field for storage.
When I try accessing the gizmo.child etc I got the following error:

Attempt to access non-existent containing entity from script
Location: Procedure 'XactBuy' near line 20

I'm guessing this means either the child doesn't exist within the gizmo or that the gizmo container doesn't exist.

the entity is:

  <entity
    id="grBuyType">
    <bootstrap thing="btBuyType"/>
  </entity>

each thing to be purchased has:

    <child entity="grBuyType">
    </child>

The code being used to set the field is:

      gizmo.child[btBuyType].field[btBuyType].value = 1

[Mathias]

I apologize, I was working from memory, and forgot where the script was.

There's a compset specifically for the helper picks, and those have a creation script that applies this sort of thing.

Here's the relevant lines from that creation script:

searchexpr = "Augment.Cyber & " & hero.transact.field[xactChCyb].chosen.tagids[explicit.?,"|"]

perform field[usrChosen1].setchosen[Grade,searchexpr,hero]

[ShadowWalker]

So the creation script sets the field and an eval script assigns the tag?

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by ShadowWalker

So the creation script sets the field and an eval script assigns the tag?

Correct.

[ShadowWalker]

Thanks got it working

[ShadowWalker]

So I got it working, but I didn't like the way I was doing it.
I'm trying to change it to work with a menu of things, which is what it looks like what you posted is doing.
Grade = component or compset of the things/picks to search for
hero = container for the picks? If this is the case what if you are using things?

[Mathias]

In setchosen, the first argument is the Component that menu chooses from. The second argument is an expression that tells it how to pick a specific item from that compset. The third argument must be either "hero", "container", or "thing", which tells HL where to apply that expression. You'll use the same setting there as your <menu_things> in the portal for this field uses for its usepicks="XXXXX" setting (and the first argument will match the component="XXXXX" in that portal).

[ShadowWalker]

Thanks again.