Creating Menu Option with Multiple If Statements

[littlepeach90]

I'm working on a project where a character has supplies that can be used. I have no problems creating menu options to hide the option to interact with the item once that specific item count is at zero, but I can't quite puzzle out how to account for if all of the items are at zero at the same time.

Here's part of the code that works as it should:

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"Practice composing" if musicsupply > 0:
                "I went to a nice, shady table to practice my composing."

But this is the part that I'm having problems with:

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"People Watch" if linedsupply > 0 and if papersupply > 0 and if musicsupply > 0:

I have zero idea what I'm doing, and I can't seem to find anything about this anywhere else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[justcolorado]

There is a bunch of ways to do that
I usually like to sum up things that require a series of decisions into one simple answer with a very descriptive name
it is a little extra work, but it makes it easier to read which can be helpful if a bunch of people are working on the project

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call checkIfPlayerCanDoSomething
if PlayerCanDoIt == True:
    "do something"

label checkIfPlayerCanDoSomething:
    
    $ PlayerCanDoIt = False
    
    if condition_A_is_Met:
        if condition_B_is_Met:
            if condition_C_is_Met:
                $ PlayerCanDoIt = True
                
    return
    

[Zetsubou]

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"People Watch" if linedsupply > 0 and if papersupply > 0 and if musicsupply > 0:

Only the first "if" is needed. Everything after that is part of the if statement.
ie.

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"People Watch" if linedsupply > 0 and papersupply > 0 and musicsupply > 0:

Some programming languages mandate brackets for if statements, which might make this concept easier to grasp.
eg. if (linedsupply > 0 and papersupply > 0 and musicsupply > 0)
One "if", multiple conditions.

[littlepeach90]

I tried to do it without the multiple "if" statements, but the statement wasn't working at all; it just skipped ahead to some random section later in the script.

But I figured out that I could make it go through a jump, and even though there wasn't a specific menu option to click, I can still get it to go through the scenario of character realizing that she's out of all of her supplies, which is all that I wanted. :/

[philat]

I don't know if you've fixed this already, and since you appear to have gotten what you wanted, perhaps this is a moot point, but still: shouldn't the condition be checking if the supplies are at or below zero rather than above zero? In other words, your first menu choice only appears if musicsupply is above zero -- i.e., if you keep using up musicsupply and musicsupply hits 0, the choice will disappear. Similary, the second choice only appears if all three supplies are above zero -- which is the opposite of what you said you want.

[littlepeach90]

I don't know if you've fixed this already, and since you appear to have gotten what you wanted, perhaps this is a moot point, but still: shouldn't the condition be checking if the supplies are at or below zero rather than above zero? In other words, your first menu choice only appears if musicsupply is above zero -- i.e., if you keep using up musicsupply and musicsupply hits 0, the choice will disappear. Similary, the second choice only appears if all three supplies are above zero -- which is the opposite of what you said you want.

I'm not quite sure, but it vanishes when it's supposed to, so I'm not going to question it. 0.o