General Methods XP VX & ACE

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General Methods for XP + VX + ACE

Sometimes people show up complaining about their inability to easily setup self switches in a script call event command.
Well, here's a quick way to get its current value or set a new one.
Since we're using scripts here, you can use any letter you can think off as an self switch ID element.

Keep in mind the default implementation requires you to provide an array of 3 elements as a key to find that self switch.
This scriptlet allows you to only set those elements you really care about at any given time.

For XP

Code:

class Interpreter
 def self_switch(char, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   $game_self_switches[[@map_id, ev_id, char]]
 end

 def set_self_switch(char, value, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   $game_self_switches[[@map_id, ev_id, char]] = value
 end

 def toggle_switch(char, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   key = [@map_id, ev_id, char]
   $game_self_switches[key] = !$game_self_switches[key]
 end
end

For VX or ACE

Code:

class Game_Interpreter
 def self_switch(char, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   $game_self_switches[[@map_id, ev_id, char]]
 end

 def set_self_switch(char, value, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   $game_self_switches[[@map_id, ev_id, char]] = value
 end

 def toggle_switch(char, ev_id=0)
   ev_id = @event_id if ev_id == 0
   key = [@map_id, ev_id, char]
   $game_self_switches[key] = !$game_self_switches[key]
 end
end

To get its current state:

self_switch('C')

To set it to a different state:

set_self_switch('C', false)

To toggle it:

toggle_switch('C")
toggle_switch('C", 21)

Add another parameter at the end, in both cases, to select a different map event.
The advantage is that you no longer need to include thisEvent, thus saving valuable space there. Plus you get the chance to use it for any map event...