[1.8.0-1.12.x] Draggable Controls (1.0.0)

[Error_Sophius]

Draggable Controls

I've always found the navball's default position irritating. It's directly under your rocket, often blocking a non-negligible chunk of whatever you're looking at. Vertical space is scarce on a widescreen, and the navball uses way too much of it. It should really be off to the side. So a few years back I made Draggable Navball, a mod that lets you drag it somewhere more convenient. While stock has added a settings slider for the navball position since then, it's still nice to be able to adjust it on the fly.

Some others found the altimeter's position irritating, so I made a similar mod for that.

Draggable Controls merges the two, and is intended to supercede them. It's mostly useful to people with a multi-monitor setup, where there's lots of empty space to use.

Credit to LGG for the name and for staying on me to actually do this.

Notes

• Draggable Controls is intended to supercede navball/altimeter. The latter probably won't receive any more updates. Not that they needed many in the first place, but still.
• v1.0.0 is intentionally feature-identical to navball+altimeter, to minimize migration surprises.
• Now (august 2022) is a good time to propose additional features. Not promising to implement anything, but the project is fresh in my head at the moment.
  • In particular, while it's not supported yet because of the v1.0.0 note above, it's now technically possible to enable vertical dragging via a config file option. Not great, but functional. More in a sub-post.

Downloads

Best installed via CKAN, but if you want to do it manually, here are the appropriate links:

• Spacedock page
• Github release
• Source code

[Error_Sophius]

Following on to the last note above:

LGG proposed making the navball vertically draggable. It's not something I ever thought to implement because I have no need for it myself, but I don't have a reason *not* to. I'm just figuring out the interface for it. Some possibilities:

• Add a settings toggle for it
• Make drag-with-rightclick 'unlock' the vertical position for the duration of the drag
• Double click on the navball to lock/unlock vertical drag
• Something else I haven't thought of.

The other difficulty is snapping the nav cluster to the screen edges properly. My partially-implemented unlock just remembers the navball's vertical position at startup and snaps to that, but that doesn't work for the other screen edges. I can clamp an object's position to arbitrary values easily enough, but what I actually want to clamp is its *bounds relative to the screen*, and I'm not sure how to get those. If anyone knows how to do that, drop a line below.

(there's also the thing where the width of the nav cluster changes depending on whether SAS is on or a maneuver is active...)

[theJesuit]

I'd love for the toolbar to be horizontal or the staging icons to be horizontal point fuel guages down?