According to MWSFD:



However, when I tried this just now, with a totally blank journal entry (as in, no entries for "Info / Response"), the index did not get reset when I loaded from a save game (an autosave, specifically).

Any ideas why this is / whether this ACTUALLY works?

Cheers,

Danjb

Did you SetJournalIndex to a value that has a line in Journal? It shouldn't have, in order to work as you want to.

No, there was no line whatsoever in the journal to which I set it.

It is my understanding that there must be a valid journal entry for the game to reset the value to for this to work. So if you had a journal entry NI_MovableContainerLoadTest and that Journal had an entry for the index 10 "I've found a bag that I can take with me." This journal could be set as Journal NI_MovableContainerLoadTest 20. When the game is loaded the index of this journal entry would be reset to 10, I've not tested this and it may end up putting the "I've found a bag I can take with me." journal entry into the journal every time the game is loaded.

Thanks, I'll experiment with this a bit later. I think MWSFD could use another update

Ok, I still can't get this to work...

Here's an object which sets your journal up to start with:

if ( OnActivate == 1 )	if ( GetJournalIndex "private_stash_journal" < 10 )		Journal "private_stash_journal" 10		SetJournalIndex "private_stash_journal" 10	endif	Activateendif

Here's the container which checks if you're loaded a game:

if ( OnActivate == 1 )	if ( GetJournalIndex "private_stash_journal" != 100 )		MessageBox "You need to activate the key!"	else		Activate	endifendif

Here's the "key" that sets your journal index to 100 (to be used after loading a game):

if ( OnActivate == 1 )	SetJournalIndex "private_stash_journal" 100endif

However, when I load my game and activate the container, I don't get the message "You need to activate the key!"

I've found that for me the SetJournalindex trick described in the MWSFD didn't work at all.

However, it is not difficult to create reliable game load detection using start scripts.

For example you can just create an empty script:

Begin examplescriptEnd

Then set up the above script as a start script. Then, from another global script you can check if the script is running and stop it if it does:

Begin anotherexamplescriptif ( ScriptRunning, "examplescript" == 1 )	MessageBox, "The game has just been loaded!"	StopScript, "examplescript"endif;do other stuff hereEnd

Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one; like I said, it seems like MWSFD could use another update!

Thanks, I guess I'll try this little trick or Get/SetScale.