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I need the player to pick up an item THEN continue. Is there a way? 

Thanks~

I don't use items, but check the articles in Help & Info. There's regular link restrictions that would prevent them from continuing without it. But that's actually very annoying when you have ability to just place the item in their inventory when they click a link.

Really? how does that work? I can't seem to find it.

It's the article called Scripting: Items.

It will reveal the mysteries of....well gosh I don't want to spoil what it's about.

Ok! Thanks so much!

Or, if you want to get into scripting, you can just force the item into the player's hands and let them continue on that way...

Do you know where's the button for scripting?

Also, say if I force it to someone's hands, which button should I use? Like, The button on the page of the item, or the one before?

Lastly, $ITEMSTATE2 = 1 doesn't seem to work. Do you know why?

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Itemstates can only be changed in page scripts, so if you're using a link script it wont work.

The ":=" image to the left of the title of a page is the page script.

Note: You'll need to do this on the page you want them to get the item on.

Did not expect '='. Col=13

Oh.

Setting something equal to something requires you use :=

= only checks to see if two things are equal

$ITEMSTATE2 := 1

Is what it should look like.

Ohhhh

Thanks

It has to be :=

If you're checking a variable for its total you do something like
IF %VAR = 1 THEN whatever.


With something like %VAR := 1, the := means 'set to'.
That's what you're doing with the item, you're not checking for something first, you're telling the game to set the item state.

The 'Col' message is just telling you exactly where it ran into the error so that you can fix ir. Line something, column something