Apartment Ownership Problem

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Oct 26 2016, 10:24 am
Hey Guys, I am currently writing a code that allows me to rent and apartment. So far I'm able to pay for the apartment, but I am unsure of how to set area/Apartment Ownership to the usr, and I don't know how to get Ownership verbs for locking the door, etc.

Here is what I have so far.
area/Apartment/var/Price
area/Apartment/var/Owner

mob/var/Ownership

area
    Apartment
        Home
        Apartment1
            Price = 100
        Apartment2
            Price = 150
        Apartment3
            Price = 300

mob/SuperTenant
    icon = 'SuperTenant.dmi'

mob/SuperTenant/verb
    Rent()
        set src in oview(1)
        var/area/Apartment/A=input("Which Apartment would you like to Rent?","Apartment") as null|anything in Apartments
        usr << "This Apartment costs [A.Price]."
        switch(alert("Are you sure you want to rent it?",,"Yes","No"))
            if ("Yes")
                usr.Money -= A.Price
                A.Owner = usr
                usr << "You pay $[A.Price] to rent the apartment for a week."

            if ("No")
                usr << "Thanks anyways."



area/Apartment/verb/TestOwn() //When I tested this, it says: You don't own this place. which means, I never actually owned it.
    set src in view(1)
    if (usr == src.Owner)
        usr << "You own this place"
    else
        usr << "You don't own this place"

area/Apartment/proc
    Ownership()
        set src in view(1) //When I used the TestOwn() verb with (src.Owner != 1) it always said I do own the place, even if I didn't
        if (src.Owner != 1)

            usr << "You don't own this place"
        else
            usr << "Congratulations on buying your new home"




area/Apartment/ARVerbs/verb
    Lock_Door()
        usr << "You lock the door"



var/list/Apartments = list(new /area/Apartment/Apartment1, new /area/Apartment/Apartment2)


area
    Apartment
        Apartment1
        Apartment2
        Apartment3


Problem description: I have the option to pick which apartment I want and pay for it, the area of each apartment has been mapped, and that part of the code works... But I don't actually own the apartment and can't use ownership verbs.

Oct 26 2016, 11:47 am
Your Apartments list contains area instances that are initialized without a location, so they aren't the same as the areas on the map (See the Reference page for "area").

If you want your Apartments list to refer to the areas on the map, you need to populate it with those areas, which only exist after the map is loaded (which happens after global variables, such as Apartments, are initializing).

Example:
proc // for now, this is a global proc
    get_all_apartments()
        var global/list/apartments

        // generate the list when this proc is called for the first time
        // (usually, the first time is after the map done initializing)
        if(!apartments)

            // option 1: specify all apartments
            apartments = list(
                locate(/area/Apartment/Apartment1),
                locate(/area/Apartment/Apartment2))

            // option 2: use all existing apartments
            apartments = new
            for(var/area/Apartment/apartment)
                apartments += apartment

        return apartments

Example usage:
input(...) as null|anything in get_all_apartments()