Ok, here's the problem.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this to work:

create (object.alias + "_container")
container = object.alias + "_container"

Basically, what this is trying to do is create a new object with the alias of an object, say 'spoon', with a prefix, '_container' (spoon_container) and then set the attribute 'container' to the new object, spoon_container.
However, this doesn't work, because there's no possible way of retrieving the new object's name in a script. Unless I'm just not seeing it?...

Oh, and I also tried this:

create ("_container")
container = _container
_container.name = object.alias + _container.name

This just popped up with an error reading 'Error running script: Cannot change name of element when not in Edit mode'...

I deem this error pointless.
I mean, I just don't understand the purpose of this. If I want to change the name instead of the alias (because using an alias would make it impossible as well) then why should I be denied that right?
Of course, I'm just rambling, though.

object names must be unique but you could try to set the name of an new object equals to the name of an existing object via script. Quest can't recognize that and and your game would crash. So this error message is the easiest way to prevent you from doing something bad

Pertex wrote:object names must be unique but you could try to set the name of an new object equals to the name of an existing object via script. Quest can't recognize that and and your game would crash. So this error message is the easiest way to prevent you from doing something bad

Well although that makes sense... I think the editor's thing that makes a unique name should be implemented into the create () script. Eh, thanks anyway.

What about the first half of my question?

You can use the GetObject function to return an object named by a string.

What you want to do is actually very simple:

    create (obj.name + "_container")
    obj.container = GetObject(obj.name + "_container")

This will create an object and assign it (as an object!) to the object it contains. if for some reason you would like to assign it as a string instead, then you can just omit GetObject() function call.

I have attached a demo game with a function CreateContainer() which does this with any object passed in as a parameter. There is an option Enchant which demonstrates how to call the function. If you Enchant Wooden Spoon you can confirm in debugger window that a "spoon_container" has been created and assigned to "spoon.container".

Wow, how did I miss that?
Thanks to both of you.

By the way, basically what I'm doing is making a simple way to 'stack' objects, so it's not a literal 'container', it's more like just a null object.

Sora574 wrote:Wow, how did I miss that?
Thanks to both of you.

By the way, basically what I'm doing is making a simple way to 'stack' objects, so it's not a literal 'container', it's more like just a null object.

My own very simple method for stacking:

// create object and stack it
        obj = GetObject("apple")
        if (obj = null) {
          create ("apple")
          obj = GetObject("apple")
        }
        else {
          CloneObject(obj)
        }
        StackObject(obj)

// function for creating stack for every type of object
  <function name="StackObject" parameters="obj">
    stack = GetObject(obj.name + "_stack")
    if (stack = null) {
      create (obj.name + "_stack")
      stack = GetObject(obj.name + "_stack")
      stack.container = true
      stack.count = 1
      stack.parent = player
      obj.parent = stack
    }
    else {
      obj.parent = stack
      stack.count = stack.count + 1
    }
    stack.alias = obj.name + " (" + stack.count + ")"
  </function>

Check out the demo game I attached, hopefully you can figure out the rest.

I think you misunderstood me.
I already have all the code I need for stacking, I just needed help with making a new object.
Thanks anyway though

Attached is some code I use for object management. There are methods for allocating, cloning and eventually freeing objects. Maybe it will help.