Several question about coding my new mod

[ClubPetey]

Hello all,

 

I've recently begun my modding career and am working on my first mod for public release.  I have a bunch of unrelated questions that have come up over the last few days of my research in how to build this mod and rather than post a number of times, I thought I'd list them all here in hopes that someone with more experience can assist me with some or all of them.  Thanks in advance for your help.

 

1. How do you have an item right-click-interact with a Villager.  The usual methods, onItemUse(), itemInteractionWithEntity(), etc do not get called for a villager, the right click is intercepted with Entity.interact() to popup the trade GUI and I cannot see a way to stop it for my particular item.

 

2. Speaking of GUIs, whats the difference between GuiScreen and GuiContainer?  When I look at Gui Tutorials, some use one, some use the other, but there's never an explanation of why. 

 

3. One of the blocks in my mod is designed to hold more that 1 stack of an item in one slot.  Is there an easy way of doing this with the Container class? Or am I looking at a complete re-implementation.  I've seen this ability in Applied Energistics, but I'm not sure how it was done, or how difficult it was.

 

4. Speaking of AE, Some of their GUIs use a scrollbox of slots to get many slots on the page, any tips on how to implement that? I haven't found any tutorial on scrolling Guis to speak of.

 

I should mention this mod is for 1.6.2 and I'm using Forge 871.

 

[Mazetar]

1. I haven't been into this for a while but I believe there's an entity interact event? You say the Entity.interact() intercepts the other call, what do you find if you climb the call order to see what happens before it intercepts it?

 

2. Container are GUI's with inventories (Chest, Furnace, Brewing Stand) and Screen are regular GUIs (Books, Game Menu, Sign).

 

3. I believe there's a field inside the Slot class which decides the max stack limit of an Item in that slot, you will probably have to create a custom slot if I recall correctly

 

PS:

You may enjoy watching Vswe's videos "Climbing the interface ladder"

Which features many GUI functions such as tabs, model render(inside gui), buttons and server<->Client synchronization.

[ClubPetey]

1. The EntityVillager.interact() is near the top of the event stack.  it will show the Merchant GUI and stop all further processing.  The only thing I see above that is a Forge EVENT_BUS message which it looks like I can install a handler for and abort the default processing, but that seems to trigger for every entity and I was concerned about lag.  That may be the only option though.

 

2. Perfect, that was the simple explanation I was lacking.

 

I will checkout the videos, I've been going through several, but they are all for different versions of MC so I get a little confused on what still works and what doesn't.

 

thanks

[Mazetar]

Vswe goes through it on 1.6.X and besides hes trying to learn you the general gist of it, not just copy-paste this.

That way you should be able to do it yourself even on other versions