Inventory update issue.

When I use inventory.addItem(item); on a player that player's inventory will not be seen as changed until they open a chest. (the items are in the inventory and can be dropped if on the hotbar) How could I fix this?

 

Ask for the team to implement inventory.update() most probably.

 

or have it done automatically when things are added and removed from the inventory.

 

Indeed.

 

We've been looking into this over the past few days. We've implemented an updateInventory() function, but don't feel that this is the right way to do things, so we haven't exposed it yet.

 

Thanks for the input! The inventory updates when the player opens the chest (and other things that have an inventory I assume) maybe the answer lies there?

 

Any updates to this? I'm experiencing a similar issue. There are other ways to force an update: relog, drag/drop items into different slots.

 

@EvilSeph, one thing to consider will be collision. When I was writing my Philosopher's Box plugin I found that if I called the sign.update and chest.update from the same method then the first one I called was not being processed. I had to break part of my processing into an asynch thread (which is probably better anyway). Just something to consider with updates if you want to have it do it automagickally...

 

Something odd I noticed with inventory is that if you alter tools in the inventory it updates, but if it's a block or stack of blocks then it won't update on it's own so you'd have to call updateInventory(). Not sure why this is, but it may help solve why it doesn't update on it's own when altered.

 

@EvilSeph
I saw that Player.updateInventory() is deprecated.
Does that mean you have found a solution yet?

 

No, you'll still have to use updateInventory. It's been deprecated since we added it to make it clear that it's not the proper way to do things. We should figure out why the inventory isn't being updated and fix it at the source, instead of providing a band-aid.