# Create Purchase Category

Grammar — Create a new purchase category for Players in slot slot
Flags — Native | Action

Creates a group for purchasable techs for the specified player group. Use “Last Created Purchase Category” to get the purchase category created by this action. Tech purchase actions are used to populate the Hyperion Armory tech purchase UI with data.

# Arguments

• playergroup — Players
• int — Slot

Returns — int<preset::PurchaseCategory>

native int PurchaseCategoryCreate(
	playergroup inPlayerGroup,
	int inSlot,
);

# Related

Category: Story / Tech Purchase Panel / Purchase Categories

• Create Purchase Category — int<preset::PurchaseCategory> — PurchaseCategoryCreate
• Last Created Purchase Category — int<preset::PurchaseCategory> — PurchaseCategoryLastCreated
• Destroy Purchase Category — void — PurchaseCategoryDestroy
• Destroy All Purchase Categories — void — PurchaseCategoryDestroyAll
• Set Purchase Category Name — void — PurchaseCategorySetNameText
• Set Purchase Category Slot — void — PurchaseCategorySetSlot
• Set Purchase Category Players — void — PurchaseCategorySetPlayerGroup
• Set Purchase Category State — void — PurchaseCategorySetState

# Examples

campaigns/libertystory.sc2campaign — base.sc2data/TriggerLibs/CampaignLib.galaxy:7585

    for ( ; ( (autoCC1C88BE_ai >= 0 && lv_index <= autoCC1C88BE_ae) || (autoCC1C88BE_ai < 0 && lv_index >= autoCC1C88BE_ae) ) ; lv_index += autoCC1C88BE_ai ) {
        if ((libCamp_gv_tS_TechCategoryID[lv_index] != libCamp_ge_StoryTechCategory_StoryTechCategoryNone) && (libCamp_gv_tS_TechCategory_UI[lv_index] == c_invalidPurchaseCategoryId)) {
            PurchaseCategoryCreate(PlayerGroupAll(), libCamp_gv_tS_TechCategorySlot[lv_index]);
            libCamp_gv_tS_TechCategory_UI[lv_index] = PurchaseCategoryLastCreated();
            PurchaseCategorySetNameText(PurchaseCategoryLastCreated(), libCamp_gv_tS_TechCategoryName[lv_index]);