I've just started a new game and have been reminded of something I've always wanted - that when you open a chest you get a 'take gold' button, alongside the 'take all', so you can take the gold with one click and ignore all the low-value rubbish and anything else you don't want to take.

I've never seen a mod that allows that and I've looked through the Morrowind scipts and haven't see one that controls chest opening, so I imagine it's hardcoded. But I thought I'd ask in case I've missed something. I can't be the only one who's wanted this.

That's a pretty good idea and it could be possible using MWSE. The only difference is that the "Take Gold" button would have to be replaced by a hotkey. I don't know if it had been done before.

If you don't mind, I'll check and see what I can throw together.

Sweet idea.. ! I hope you're able to whip something up, Adul. I'd like this in my game as well..

I certainly don't mind, i hope someone can do something

Well it is a point (to the gold) and SHIFT + click, but IIRC taking all of an item should be available already (or even click alone if you enable a MCP option)

Well, it works most of the time. You open the chest, press the hotkey, and the mod automatically transfers all gold pieces to your inventory and closes the chest. But there's a small (~1%) chance that the script does not start up in time due to some engine weirdness, and then the key won't work and you need to open the chest again to fix it. It's really frustrating. :brokencomputer:

I'll check if I can get rid of that pesky thing tomorrow.

Is "Take Gold" an okay name for it by the way?

That'll be so sweet! I never understood why on a pc, games don't abuse hotkeys and the like... come on, how many keys are there on a keyboard! It's faster than using the fracking mouse (as long as you can use both for the same option; click or type)!
By the way, "Take Gold" is ok, better then "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfbb6QJ7_w"!

Call it whatever you like, since you are doing it

@abot - yeah I know you can shift+click but that's not as easy as a single click (or a hotkey) and when you're doing it umpteen times it gets annoying. I had a look at the MCP options but couldn't see anything there, I have 1.9 installed.

@mariedanj - hehe - one of my favourite SF movies

In MCP 2.0 the Beta section has "Shortcut key improvements", part of which says "Normally, while picking up stacks, holding down shift would pick up a whole stack without a quantity window, and holding down ctrl would pick up one item. This option makes a click pick up a whole stack by default, and holding shift instead makes the quantity window appear."

@Adul maybe offer a mode to automatically just take all the gold? IMHO the only reason you wouldn't want to is when playing with a gold weight mod.

That's very similar to how I planned it, in my version you just activate the container once to open it, then once again to close it and take all money.

The problem of the moment is that initially I wrote the script using the OnActivate call on the chest, and I didn't realize that doing so disables the default activate action on that object reference for good. This of course messes up your game if you disable the mod at any time. So now I'm rewriting the script and hope no new problems arise because of that. :laugh:

FWIW, I would handle this by keeping track of the player's current target and using xRefType to find out what it is. When it is a container, set a flag and wait for the activate key (spacebar) to be pressed, then trigger the script.

You can also look at my "Take All" mod and perhaps adapt some of that, but using a filter to only get gold.

Also, for xKeyPressed weirdness, I suggest always calling it twice in succession:

setx pressed to xKeyPressed lkeysetx pressed to xKeyPressed lkey

That seems to clear up any previous key presses that may still be causing it to return true (I have no logical explanation for why that happens, but it does) and just seems to help with the overall reliability of using that function.

Thanks for the heads up Fligg, I had been wondering why xKeyPressed didn't always work the way I'd expect it to. The mod already works well "in theory", there are just a few obscure bugs that occasionally happen in-game that I still need to track down.

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