If I do

my.event = pick_or_drop;

It does nothing, it never get's to the pick_or_drop function. But if I do this:

my.event = pick_or_drop();

Then it goes to the function, but only once and not when it's suppose to!

I got the code straight out of AUM.

you have to declare what acctivates your event, like enable_scan, enable_touch ...
f.e.:

my.enable_scan = on;
my.event = pick_or_drop;

I did, I copied the exact code out of AUM. I can't get any sort of event to work.

Could you please post the code of the action (where the events are attached to the action) and the event function?

this works:
Code:

---

function event_item_pickup
{
	if(event_type == event_click || (event_type == event_scan && indicator == _click))
	{
		snd_play(click_wav,100,0);
		check_for_inventory(my._item);
	}
}


action item_pickup
{
	my.enable_click = on;
	my.enable_scan = on;
	my.event = event_item_pickup;	
}

---

Some of that code was generating some errors for me so I changed it to this. I added some comments to explain a little more.

function event_item_pickup
{
if(event_type == event_click || (event_type == event_scan)) //it didn't like the if event that you gave me for some reason.
{
//snd_play(click_wav,100,0); //i don't have any wav files in my project
//check_for_inventory(my._item); //is this a custom functin?

temp.x = pointer.x; //this stuff is to move a 3d object
temp.y = pointer.y;
temp.z = 200; // move the object 200 quants below the camera, play with this value
vec_for_screen(temp.x, camera);
my.x = temp.x;
my.y = temp.y;
my.z = temp.z;
}
}


action item_pickup
{
my.enable_click = on;
my.enable_scan = on;
my.event = event_item_pickup;
}

oh I forgot to say, it still doesn't work. I put a break point into the event_item_pickup and nothing happens.

Who/what is the action item_pickup assigned to?

a 3d model.

Try if:

if(event_type == event_click)

alone works, just to begin to narrow down where the problem is.