[RESOLVED] Keeping a context menu button down

[FreeThinker]

When you right click on an engine, it has the option to Enable and Disable the Gimbal. The neat thing is, that when you disable it, the button remains pressed. How can I accomplish this myself?

Edited August 30, 2015 by FreeThinker

[Diazo]

Using KSPEvent, that happens automatically where you use a type of BOOL.

To do it manually would require an IF statement to check which type of button to display before your IF(GUI.Button....) line.

D.

[FreeThinker]

Using KSPEvent, that happens automatically where you use a type of BOOL.

To do it manually would require an IF statement to check which type of button to display before your IF(GUI.Button....) line.

D.

Sorry, could you give a short example?

[Diazo]

I'm not sure what you are asking for.

If you are using a KSPEvent, it's the standard [KSPEvent] tag you put before the object.

Hmm, actually I'm not sure if I meant KSPField now. KSPEvents are for methods, you can't have a type BOOL of those.

[KSPField(GUIActive = true)]
public bool myVal;

Should work. (Once you fix the GUIActive syntax, wrote that from memory.)

If you mean on your own button, something like:

If(showAsButtonUp)
{
GUICurrentStyle = GUIButtonUpStyle
}
else
{
GUICurrentStyle = GUIButtonDownStyle
}
If(GUI.Button(rect,string,GUICurrentStyle) //use values as per your usage scenario, then the GUIStyle value is the GUICurrentStyle from the previous IF statement.
{
//do stuff on button click
}

Hope that answers your question,

D.

[FreeThinker]

Sorry, I guess I wan not clear. I need to change the button of an KSPEvent

I got the following existing code

        [KSPField(isPersistant = true,  guiActive = false, guiActiveEditor = true, guiName = "Is Propellant")]
        public bool isPropellant = true;

        [KSPEvent(guiActive = true, guiActiveEditor = true, guiName = "Switch Propellant Mode"]
        public void SwitchIsPropellant()
        {
            isPropellant = !isPropellant;
        }

        public void Update()
        {
            Events["SwitchIsPropellant"].guiName = isPropellant ? "Lock as Propellant Source" : "Unlock as Propellant Source";
            Events["SwitchIsPropellant"].active = controlledResources.Any(r => part.Resources.Contains(r));
        }

now I need to force the SwitchIsPropellant event (button) to remain pressed while inactive

[Diazo]

Alright, contrary to my first post, I don't think that is possible on a KSPEvent, only on KSPFields.

What you can do however is change the text string, so instead of being "Switch Propellant Mode!", you can have the text display which mode you are in.

You can do this via the string object found at this.Events["SwitchIsPropellant"].guiName

Best I can offer,

D.

[FreeThinker]

Yes, I figured the way to do is by simply adding "UI_Toggle(disabledText = "Off", enabledText = "On")" to a KSPField

For example:

[KSPField(GUIActive = true), UI_Toggle(disabledText = "Off", enabledText = "On")]
public bool myVal;