[HELP!] How do I make a toolbar button?

[Xyphos]

I wanna make a mod with a GUI and a Toolbar button visible only in the editor. where do I find code or documentation for this?

[HebaruSan]

This is the one I used:

And this is my most concise implementation so far:

• https://github.com/HebaruSan/SmartTank/blob/master/src/AppLauncher.cs

Edited July 10, 2017 by HebaruSan

[Xyphos]

thanks. shame there's no easy way to implement this, mind if I use your code?

[HebaruSan]

Just now, Xyphos said:

thanks. shame there's no easy way to implement this, mind if I use your code?

Feel free, it's GPLv3. The SetTooltip line depends on this, just remove it if you don't want a tooltip:

• https://github.com/HebaruSan/SmartTank/blob/master/src/Extensions/TooltipExtensions.cs

[Xyphos]

line 19, there's a dollar sign in front of a string, my IDE shows it as an error, and it's the first I've seen that. usually there's an @

- per chance it's a typo?

Edited July 10, 2017 by Xyphos

[HebaruSan]

Just now, Xyphos said:

line 19, there's a dollar sign in front of a string, my IDE shows it as an error, and it's the first I've seen that. usually there's an @

- per chance it's a typo?

That's this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/interpolated-strings

You may need to update your language version to C# 6 to use that code as-is. Probably easier to change it to call String.format instead.

[Xyphos]

oh, I tend to use 3.5 for KSP plugins, as I understand it, that's the recommended runtime version?

[HebaruSan]

Just now, Xyphos said:

oh, I tend to use 3.5 for KSP plugins, as I understand it, that's the recommended runtime version?

Yeah, all plugins have to use .NET 3.5 to load properly. But I believe the language/compiler version is separate from that.