"ev" enum values - how to create new ones?

@Hadron1776 Interesting, thanks for the insight! With you editing in JPEXS, did you edit any actionscript files? That's where I ran into trouble, in particular. I edited an actionscript file, but it didn't save the information properly; it just erased the function when I tried to save the change. It may have been a bug particular to JPEXS and that file in particular. I'm not sure. I know JPEXS is a tool put together by volunteer work and they do say the actionscript editing part is "experimental" (e.g. not very reliable without bugs).

Yup.
GFX instance DA7597EAEB9BA388:

         if(SimAgeTypes.IsElder(_loc3_) || _loc4_)
         {
            _loc2_ = KeysGP.SUMMARY_PANEL_DAYS_LIVED.Clone();
         }
         else
         {
            _loc2_ = KeysGP.SUMMARY_PANEL_DAYS_LEFT.Clone();
         }

I removed the "|| _loc4_" check without issue. You have to click "save changes" on the actionscript, THEN you have to save the actual GFX file.

If it says "Cannot save file" then yeah, your function will get deleted. Try "Save As".

Also, as a side note:

"Triplis;c-15778196" wrote:

Adding in another case:

      protected function ShowOccultContent(param1:int) : *
      {
         switch(param1)
         {
            case OccultTypes.OCCULT_VAMPIRE:
               this.mcVampireContent.visible = true;
               this.mcVampireContent.HandleSimActivated(mSimId);
               this.mcVampireContent.y = this.mcMotives.y + this.mcMotives.CalculateCommoditiesHeight() + SimInfoMotivePanelTunables.OCCULT_CONTENT_MARGIN.mTop;
               break;
            case OccultTypes.OCCULT_SORCERER:
               this.mcVampireContent.visible = true;
               this.mcVampireContent.HandleSimActivated(mSimId);
               this.mcVampireContent.y = this.mcMotives.y + this.mcMotives.CalculateCommoditiesHeight() + SimInfoMotivePanelTunables.OCCULT_CONTENT_MARGIN.mTop;
               break;
            default:
               this.mcVampireContent.visible = false;
         }
         this.RefreshPanelHeight();
      }

Why do that, when you can do this?

      protected function ShowOccultContent(param1:int) : *
      {
         switch(param1)
         {
           case OccultTypes.OCCULT_SORCERER:
            case OccultTypes.OCCULT_VAMPIRE:
               this.mcVampireContent.visible = true;
               this.mcVampireContent.HandleSimActivated(mSimId);
               this.mcVampireContent.y = this.mcMotives.y + this.mcMotives.CalculateCommoditiesHeight() + SimInfoMotivePanelTunables.OCCULT_CONTENT_MARGIN.mTop;
               break;
            default:
               this.mcVampireContent.visible = false;
         }
         this.RefreshPanelHeight();
      }

The case instances fall through by default; that's why the "break" statements exist.

@Hadron1776 I believe I did save the actionscript and then do a save as and it erased the function. After initially saving the actionscript, it didn't seem to have a problem. But when I saved the file and reloaded it, the function was gone. I can try again when I find the time, but that is what I remember.

As for the switch statement, to be honest, I've never seen a switch statement done like that. Is there documentation somewhere you could link me to on that practice?

The GFX language seems an awful lot like C++
I found this in trait.IsValidForDisplay:

      protected function IsValidForDisplay(param1:SimTraitsInfo) : Boolean
      {
         switch(param1.TraitType)
         {
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_PERSONALITY:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_GAMEPLAY:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_GHOST:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_ASPIRATION:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_PHASE:
               return true;
            default:
               return false;
         }
      }

I think this might be applicable:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/switch
...as for saving the file, I made that OCCULT_SORCERER addition and reloaded it several times. It seems to be holding.

One huge difference between the GFX files and the examples in the documentation is that I don't think TS4 gfx files use the std namespace. But the principle is the same.
I just noticed that the GFX says "edit actionscript" meaning that's the language. But the code above was not modified before it was pasted, which confirms that sort of thing does work.

Just found something probably more proper:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/statements.html#switch

"Triplis;c-15781218" wrote:
Lol, so fun stuff. I got around to trying something I've been wanting to test for a while now. I wanted to see if the command SHOW_OCCULT_POWERS_PANEL in a notification will reliably bring up the Powers Panel. It worked more or less as I thought it would.

Brought up the Vampire UI. But, uh... it's empty... lol. And the purple bar on the side just continuously fills up to the top and then starts over.

http://i.imgur.com/FvvEQwq.jpg

This shows:
- Don't strictly speaking need access to the normal UI button to open the Powers Panel.
- Need just about everything else probably, so it's probably a crapshoot anyway to use the Vamp UI for anything.

I think I know what the problem with that bar is.
The bar is set to reference the value of a statistic (The vampire XP stat), but your Sorcerers do not have that stat IIRC. So it doesn't know what to set the bar to.

Also, to add your occult to sims.occult_tracker tuning, you'd need to add your occult here:

class OccultType(enum.IntFlags):
    __qualname__ = 'OccultType'
    HUMAN = 1
    ALIEN = 2
    VAMPIRE = 4

"Hadron1776;c-15805092" wrote:
The GFX language seems an awful lot like C++
I found this in trait.IsValidForDisplay:

      protected function IsValidForDisplay(param1:SimTraitsInfo) : Boolean
      {
         switch(param1.TraitType)
         {
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_PERSONALITY:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_GAMEPLAY:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_GHOST:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_ASPIRATION:
            case SimTraitsInfo.TRAIT_PHASE:
               return true;
            default:
               return false;
         }
      }

I think this might be applicable:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/switch
...as for saving the file, I made that OCCULT_SORCERER addition and reloaded it several times. It seems to be holding.

One huge difference between the GFX files and the examples in the documentation is that I don't think TS4 gfx files use the std namespace. But the principle is the same.
I just noticed that the GFX says "edit actionscript" meaning that's the language. But the code above was not modified before it was pasted, which confirms that sort of thing does work.

"Hadron1776;c-15805122" wrote:
Just found something probably more proper:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/statements.html#switch

Interesting. Never knew that about switch statements. Good to know. Guessing it's minutely less performance-cost.

Oh, also, I don't know what we're doing differently. :/ I've tried saving the file multiple times in multiple ways. It always appears to save the changes fine and then when I reload it, that function is empty.

"Hadron1776;c-15805250" wrote:

"Triplis;c-15781218" wrote:
Lol, so fun stuff. I got around to trying something I've been wanting to test for a while now. I wanted to see if the command SHOW_OCCULT_POWERS_PANEL in a notification will reliably bring up the Powers Panel. It worked more or less as I thought it would.

Brought up the Vampire UI. But, uh... it's empty... lol. And the purple bar on the side just continuously fills up to the top and then starts over.

http://i.imgur.com/FvvEQwq.jpg

This shows:
- Don't strictly speaking need access to the normal UI button to open the Powers Panel.
- Need just about everything else probably, so it's probably a crapshoot anyway to use the Vamp UI for anything.

I think I know what the problem with that bar is.
The bar is set to reference the value of a statistic (The vampire XP stat), but your Sorcerers do not have that stat IIRC. So it doesn't know what to set the bar to.

Also, to add your occult to sims.occult_tracker tuning, you'd need to add your occult here:

class OccultType(enum.IntFlags):
    __qualname__ = 'OccultType'
    HUMAN = 1
    ALIEN = 2
    VAMPIRE = 4

Interesting, good to know!

Right now, I've kind of set aside the attempts to add an "official" occult type while I focus on other things, but if I get back to it at some point, this should be valuable insight.

When you click 'save as', the changes are saved - in a new file. Other than that, I really don't know what's going on :(

Here's what I've been doing, anyway:

^click that save button THEN


^message box says 'code successfully saved'. Close it out. THEN


^Click the button up top to save the GFX file