Items that change one of the wearer's vars

[Drynwyn]

What's the proper way to do this? Change in equip/unequip (if that's even possible?) Do I need to create an item flag, like I see in mesons?

[Ikarrus]

Very good question. I'd be interested as well.

Is there anything specific you're asking about, Dyrn?

[Drynwyn]

The immediate context is that I want to create an exosuit that will let the wearer ventcrawl, and ventcrawler is a var now.

There are a lot of broader applications though.

[AseaHeru]

Ninja exosuit?

[Remie Richards]

use the equipped() proc, it has 2 arguments, 1 the mob that the item is equipped to, and 2 the slot it was equipped to.

eg.

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/obj/item/clothing/under/ventcrawl_suit/equipped(mob/living/user, slot_w_uniform)

[Drynwyn]

Will that automatically change it back when it's unequipped, or will I need to create an unequipped() or whatever proc?

[MisterPerson]

That could be handled by dropped(), but dropped() gets called when you put something in a bag, unequip, and of course actually drop the item. It's all very meh.

[Drynwyn]

And would also mean that if one equipped the item, picked up another instance of the item, then dropped that item, you might have issues.

That could be avoided with some checks tho.


EDIT: Is dropped() called before or after the item is removed from it's slot? Mote specifically, if I check for the item being present in the slot that it's attempted removal from resulted in a call to dropped(), will this return true or false?