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I've concluded that I must make a separate PANEL for EVERY SINGLE SLOT... I REALLY want to be wrong here, but I'm not



I'm sorry to say that you're not wrong - at least as long as we are talking about c-script.
I don't know about Lite-C, as I've never tried it - I haven't used 3DGS for a few months now (I'm learning Managed DirectX programming in C# ).

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C-Script is not suited for this particular project, but it is possible with massive amounts of code



Exactly. I've created a diablo-style inventory once in C-script, and I'll NEVER do that again

The best way to do it would be through a DLL, or maybe it can be done easily in Lite-C