Two Questions.

[Dlbrooks33]

1)how do I make an item appear after link whistles or pushes a block?
2)how do I make Link have to whistle to make a chest open with an item inside?

[koopa]

I know you put flag 10 or 9 on a tile and set an under combo, then set room type:secret item, secret item. When you make what's under the 9/10 flag change to the under combo, the secret item appears there.

You could: place a whistle flag on one tile, a secret flag on another.
Set the chest combo as secret tile. It shuold be combo type slash -> item. Hold CTRL + click on the secret tile again, then set flag 10 (armos->item). Then when you whistle on the whistle spot the secret is activated and the chest appears. When you slash the chest (it's a slash->item combo) it turns into the under combo (which you set as an open chest). But there's a #10 flag on it so the secret item appears on the under combo.

I know this is not quite what you asked but I'm not that much of an expert, I'll post back if I find what you wanted; I'm making my first quest myself and am looking for the same thing.

[Dlbrooks33]

well thanks for the help then i really appreciate it.

[koopa]

The general way to give items etc. is by secrets. Whistling on a whistle tile, burning a burn flag etc. triggers all secrets on that screen. A secret can be a chest appearing as above or stairs (which are set to lead to a "cave room", those rooms where you walk down a ladder to get an item and there are usually 4 keese [bats]). There is as far as I know no way to place an item directly anywhere on screen on triggering a secret except making 2 identical rooms and warping link to the second when the secret triggers, and placing the item as regular item on the 2nd screen. That's why most quests use cave rooms.

[Dlbrooks33]

good explanation, thanks i get it now.