Cannot Create Objects of Type

ID:1461203
 
Jan 2 2014, 11:33 pm
(See the best response by Multiverse7.)
Code:
                var/turf/TrapTurf = get_step(usr, usr.dir)
                var/Picked = pick(Traps)
                var/Skills/Earth_Spike/Trap = new Picked
                var/list/Chest = list()
                while(!Trap.Move(TrapTurf))
                    Chest += Picked ; Traps -= Picked
                    if(length(Traps))
                        Picked = pick(Traps)
                        Trap = new Picked
                    else break
                Traps += Chest
                while(bounds_dist(usr, Picked ) > 3)
                    if(step_towards(Picked, usr)) continue
                    else break


Aaaaand Traps is
                Traps = list( /Skills/Earth_Spike/Spike1, /Skills/Earth_Spike/Spike2, /Skills/Earth_Spike/Spike3, /Skills/Earth_Spike/Spike4)


Problem description:
I don't know why it thinks I'm inserting an object in for picked or what, but I keep getting the error even though I'm pretty sure Picked should be a path.
Jan 3 2014, 12:27 am
Best response
Are you familiar with the ispath() proc? You can use it to check if something is a valid type path.

So in your case, you could do:
var/pathcount
for(var/path in Traps)
    if(ispath(path))
        pathcount++
if(pathcount == length(Traps))
    world << "All items are valid paths."
else
    world << "One or more items are not valid paths."
Jan 3 2014, 1:48 am
Turns out NONE of them were paths. So I changed them to instances for the time being. I might turn them into strings and use text2path() to save on data. But it's not a big issue atm.