Not being able to cancel a "click" is very annoying

[MrChoke]

I am faced with the same problem I had when trying to get chests to unlock with keys and not lock picks. The major problem is how the Clickable component works. If an object has one and its enabled, there is a built-in behavior that executes after the onClick() function fires AND YOU CANNOT STOP IT. Well, we did make it cancel itself for the chest to get key unlocks to work. We faked-it-out basically by removing the held object so that when the built-in code executed it didn't do anything because the object was gone. I was amazed it worked to be honest.

So my current situation has no work around that I can find. I have a pull chain defined for a door (castle_door_button). I can add my own onClick() hook for the button but there is nothing I can do to stop it from calling open() on the door. Even in the door's onOpen() I cannot seem to stop that event either. Sure I can disable the clickable component but I want conditional logic so that I can decide whether I want the click to go through or not.

In any event-driven language like Java for example, you can cancel an event to stop it from bubbling. Now I know this is a game not a full-blown language but still, this functionality is sorely lacking.

[GoldenShadowGS]

Why don't you make a pullchain that is separate from the door?

Try this:

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defineObject{
	name = "castle_customdoor_button",
	baseObject = "wall_button",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Model",
			model = "assets/models/env/castle_wall_button.fbx",
			offset = vec(1.5, 1.5, -0.23),
		},
		--{
		--	class = "Animation",
		--	animations = {
		--		press = "assets/animations/env/beach_rock_wall_button_01_press.fbx",
		--	},
		--},
		{
			class = "Particle",
			particleSystem = "castle_button",
			offset = vec(1.5, 1.5, -0.23),
		},
		{
			class = "Light",
			offset = vec(1.5, 1.5, -0.23),
			range = 4,
			color = vec(0.5, 1.0, 2.5),
			brightness = 4,
			fillLight = true,
		},
		{
			class = "Clickable",
			offset = vec(1.5, 1.5, -0.23),
			size = vec(0.25, 0.25, 0.25),
			--debugDraw = true,
		},
		{
			class = "Button",
			sound = "castle_button",
		},
	},
	replacesWall = false,
}

[Batty]

It's not the Clickable class, the

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{
   class = "PullChain"
},

is allowing the click to go through so do not do

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baseObject = "door_pullchain",

in your definition because you're inheriting it. Make something like this and you can control the click:

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defineObject{
   name = "new_pullchain",
	components = {
	   {
			class = "Model",
			model = "assets/models/env/door_pullchain.fbx"
		},
		{
			class = "Animation",
			animations = {
				press = "assets/animations/env/door_pullchain.fbx"
			}
		},
		{
			class = "Clickable",
			offset = vec(1.3, 1.3,-0.4),
			size = vec(0.3, 0.6, 0.3),
			onClick = function(self)
				if (your test) then 
				   self.go.animation:play("press")
               (do other things also)
				   return true
            else				
			      return false
				end
			end
			--debugDraw = true,			
		}
	},
	placement = "wall",
	editorIcon = 12
}

[GoldenShadowGS]

I had the same idea, I copied the castle wall button definition and put the castle door pull chain buttons offsets onto it.

[MrChoke]

Thanks Batty. Yes, I came back to the thread to update as SOLVED with the same answer. I found that I can enable or disable the pullchain component on the button and it works without having to remove the pullchain off the door (a solution that also worked but stunk).

My complaint does still remain in that we cannot cancel the click. But much like the keyLock chest, we can get the hard-coded event handler to not do anything if we find the right thing to modify. I fear one of these times we won't find something. But who knows.