Trying to open the resource panel

[Krazy1]

I'm trying to get the resource panel to open automatically when entering flight scene. Seems simple enough, but without any plain English descriptions in most of the KSP API "documentation", I'm just guessing how to do it.  I'm trying to use ShowResourceList but it doesn't do anything.  I'm using Update(), which starts before the Resource app is launched, resulting in some initial Null Refs, but once it's loaded, then it does nothing AFAIK. 

using System;
using System.Threading;
using UnityEngine;
using KSP.UI.Screens; // has class ResourceDisplay

namespace Rememberer
{

    [KSPAddon(KSPAddon.Startup.Flight, false)]
    public class RememFlight : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private bool setResourcePanelNotDone = true;  
        private int iter = 0;

        public void Start()
        {
            Debug.Log("RememFlight - Start");
        }

        public void Update()
        {
            if (setResourcePanelNotDone)
            {
                iter++;
                Debug.Log("RememFlight - Update " + iter);
                ResourceDisplay.Instance.ShowResourceList(true);  //tried true and false

                if (iter > 160)
                {
                    setResourcePanelNotDone = false;
                }
            }
        }

        public void OnDisable()
        {
            Debug.Log("RememFlight - Disable");
            Debug.Log("RememFlight - Disable iter= " + iter);
            Debug.Log("RememFlight - Disable setResourcePanelNotDone= " + setResourcePanelNotDone);
        }

    }

}

Here's log:

KSP log

I could try to clear the Null Refs with a callback/ delegate but why bother if the basic function doesn't work? Unless the Null Refs are causing ShowResourceList to not work later? Doubtful. I could try looking in the AlternateResourcePanel mod but not sure what that might yield.

So... is this normal for everyone, to guess how to use the KSP API?

UPDATE:

This basically works: ResourceDisplay.Instance.appLauncherButton.SetTrue()

Edited May 1, 2021 by Krazy1

[wasml]

On 4/28/2021 at 10:30 PM, Krazy1 said:

So... is this normal for everyone, to guess how to use the KSP API?

Guess/experiment/examine mods that do something similar/ask here on the forum are the only ways I've found.