Referencing inventory flags in ZScript?

[DenisBelmondo]

So basically, I'm trying to disable Inventory.NOSCREENFLASH on the fly with an Event Handler and its WorldThingSpawned virtual. Here's some code.

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if (e.thing is "Inventory")
    e.thing.bNoScreenFlash = true;

The second line is problematic because I assume that bNoScreenFlash is not directly a member of Thing. So I tried prefixing it with "Inv", which the member of type Inventory in the base Actor class just for giggles like so:

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if (e.thing is "Inventory")
    e.thing.Inv.bNoScreenFlash = true;

It no longer complains about bNoScreenFlash being an unknown identifier, but the VM crashes with an access violation (address 0).

So finally, I try to modify the check like so:

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if (e.thing.Inv)
    e.thing.Inv.bNoScreenFlash = true;

This doesn't cause the VM to crash, but it has no effect whatsoever.

The only thing that I've done to make it work is having e.thing call A_ChangeFlag(), but as we all know, that function is deprecated.

[m8f]

"e.thing.Inv" means an inventory that e.thing has. This code needs a cast:

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Inventory inv = Inventory(e.thing);
if (inv) { inv.bNoScreenFlash = true; }

[DenisBelmondo]

Thanks a bunch! It certainly gives me some ZScript related insight outside of this context too.